Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600

Hannah Greig is Senior Lecturer in History and a member of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York, UK. Jane Hamlett is Reader in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture.Leonie Hannan is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.

• Introduction: Gender and Material Culture1. Gender and Material Culture in the Early Modern London Guilds2. Women's Letters: Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and the Life of the Mind3. Men's Hair: Managing Appearances in the Long Eighteenth Century4. Craftsmen in Common: Objects, Skills and Masculinity in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries5. Stitching Women: Unpicking Histories of Victorian Clothes6. Grooming Men: The Material World of the Nineteenth-Century Barbershop7. Queer Things: Men and Make-Up between the Wars8. Manly Drinkers: Masculinity and Material Culture in the Interwar Public HouseConcluding RemarksResourcesKey Texts.

'Why are pens seldom gendered while shoes are? Why should girls play with dolls and not boys? Gender and Material Culture is a unique contribution to what has been defined as a material turn in history, covering hitherto unexplored areas of the complex relationship between gender and material things in Britain since the seventeenth century.' - Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK