Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-210) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : material culture and the gendered subject / Jennifer G. Germann and Heidi A. Strobel -- Men and hunting guns in eighteenth-century France / Amy Freund -- Taste à-la-mode : consuming foreignness, picturing gender / Freya Gowrley -- Gendered souvenirs : Anna Amalia's grand tourist vedute fans / Christina K. Lindeman -- Majas, mantillas, and marcialidad : fashioning identity in late eighteenth-century Spain / Tara Zanardi -- Place and possession : Emma Hamilton at Merton, 1801-5 / Amber Ludwig -- A gentleman's pursuit : eighteenth-century chinoiserie silver in Britain / Elizabeth A. Williams -- Sexing sovereignty : the material culture and sexual politics of Queen Marie Leszcinska's bed / Jennifer G. Germann -- 'Idleness never grew in my soil' : Mary Delany's flower collages, gender, and the moral authority of 'nature' in eighteenth-century England / Felicity Roberts -- Pocket museums : the display of art in women's almanacs during the first French Empire / Ryan Whyte -- Stitching the stage : Mary Linwood, Thomas Gainsborough, and the art of installation embroidery / Heidi A. Strobel.
Series:
The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950
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