Serena Dyer

Material Lives (eBook, ePUB)

Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350127005
• Artikelnr.: 60650622

Autorenporträt

Serena Dyer is Lecturer in History of Design & Material Culture at De Montfort University. She has taught at the University of Warwick and the University of Hertfordshire, and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She was previously Curator of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. She has published on albums, wallpaper, consumer culture, and childhood in the 18th century. Her book, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Charts and Tables Acknowledgements List of
Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Making Material Lives Material Life Writing
The Consumer Culture of Making Four Material Lives 2. Material Accounting:
A Sartorial Account Book Barbara Johnson (1738-1825) Educating Barbara
Johnson Accounting for Herself Material Literacy A Chronicle of Fashion 3.
Dress of the Year: Watercolours Ann Frankland Lewis (1757-1842) Sartorial
Timekeeping and the Fashion Plate Accomplishment and Creative Practice
Society and Fashionable Display Selfhood, Emotion and the Mourning
Watercolours 4. Adorned in Silk: Dressed Prints Sabine Winn (1734-1798)
Paper Textiles, Dress and the Dressed Print Sabine Winn's Dressed Prints
Print and Making at Nostell 5. Fashions in Miniature: Dolls Laetitia Powell
(1741-1801) The Powell Dolls Mimetic Dolls and Miniature Selves Dolls as
Sartorial Social Narrators 6. Conclusion: Material Afterlives Glossary
Bibliography Index