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Daly Goggin Maureen,Tobin Beth Fowkes
A collection of essays that provides case studies of women who produced material objects. It deals with the women’s complex and active engagement with material culture in the various stages…
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With essays on a range of fiber art practices, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting, machine stitching, rug making, weaving, and quilting, this collection contributes to the scholarly redefinition of women’s relationship…
Maureen Daly Goggin,Beth Fowkes Tobin
With global perspective and comparative framework, this collection contributes to the scholarly examination of consumption by taking the topic of women, material culture, and consumption into the various arenas. It…
Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection looks at the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they…
Reframing the scholarship on women and material culture, this three-volume set explores how women from widely different times and places made meaning-and formed identities-through the materials they created and consumed…
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Captures color’s global history with chapters on indigo plantations in India and the American South, cochineal production in colonial Oaxaca, the taste for brightly colored Chinese objects in Europe, and…
