{"product_id":"material-lives-serena-dyer-9781350126961","title":"Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women's material experiences and practices, \u003ci\u003eMaterial Lives\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaterial Lives \u003c\/i\u003epositions 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Serena Dyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350126969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350126961\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Visual Arts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 7.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Serena Dyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983199666431,"sku":"9781350126961","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_891fd688-8196-4a7b-8fce-ec71983491e4.jpg?v=1683265236","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/material-lives-serena-dyer-9781350126961","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}