Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Women and things, 1750-1950 : gendered material strategies / edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin.
Alternate Title(s):
Women & things
Published / Created:
Farnham, England ; Ashgate, c2009.

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.
Physical Description:
xxii, 373 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-363) and index.
Contents:
Fabricating identity : Janie Terrero's 1912 embroidered English suffrage signature handkerchief / Maureen Daly Goggin -- Stitching the self : Eliza Kenniff's drawers and the materialization of identity in late-nineteenth-century London / Vivienne Richmond -- Material culture, identity, and colonial society in the Canadian fur trade / Laura Peers -- From ruffs to regalia : Tlingit dolls and the embodiment of identity / Megan A. Smetzer -- Female crafts : women and bricolage in late Georgian Britain, 1750-1820 / Ariane Fennetaux -- Reading circles, crafts, and flower arranging : everyday items in the silhouettes of Luise Duttenhofer (1776-1829) / Julia Sedda -- Preservation and permanence : American women and nature fancywork in the nineteenth century / Andrea Kolasinski Marcinkus -- Material histories : the scrapbooks of progressive-era women's organizations, 1875-1930 / Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger -- Materials of the "everyday" woman writer : letter-writing in eighteenth-century England and America / Cheryl Nixon and Lousie Penner -- Inside out : sculptures by women in the Metropolitan public space (Paris, London, Brusssels, 1750-1950) / Marjan Sterckx -- The butter sculpture of Caroline Shawk Brooks (1840-1913) / Rebecca Bedell and Margaret Samu -- Cooking "delicious and wholesome food" in post-revolutionary Russia / Lyubov G. Gurjeva and Maria Eichmans Cochran -- Gifting and fetishization : the portrait miniature of Sally Foster Otis as a maker of female memory / Katherine Rieder -- (Re)collecting herself : Jennie Drew's autograph album, mnemonic activity, and the creation of feminine subjectivity / Lisa Reid Ricker -- Crosses, cloaks, and globes : women's material culture of mourning on the Brittany coast / Maura Coughlin -- Monumental visions : women sculptors and World War I / Jennifer Wingate -- Place as material culture and restorative tool : Yanyuwa women's ceremony places in northern Australia / Amanda Kearney.
Subject Terms:
Women and the decorative arts. | Women artists. | Identity (Psychology) in art. | Material culture -- Social aspects. | Material culture -- Psychological aspects.
Contributors:
Goggin, Maureen Daly. | Tobin, Beth Fowkes.