Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century by Dyer, Serena

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350126961)

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Format: Paperback
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Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century by Dyer, Serena

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

$39.95
Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century by Dyer, Serena

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, Material Lives offers a new perspective on eighteenth-century production and consumption. Genteel women's making has traditionally been seen as decorative, trivial and superficial. Yet their material archives, forged through fabric samples, watercolours, dressed prints and dolls' garments, reveal how women used the material culture of making to record and navigate their lives.

Material Lives positions women as 'makers' in a consumer society. Through fragments of fabric and paper, Dyer explores an innovative way of accessing the lives of otherwise obscured women. For researchers and students of material culture, dress history, consumption, gender and women's history, it offers a rich resource to illuminate the power of needles, paintbrushes and scissors.

Author: Serena Dyer
ISBN-10: 1350126969
ISBN-13: 9781350126961
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2021
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.50w x 0.70d
By Serena Dyer
By Serena Dyer
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Serena Dyer is a historian of material culture, consumption and fashion. She is Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at De Montfort University, UK, an Associate Fellow of the University of Warwick and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre. She was previously Curator of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, London, UK.

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