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Gender and the Glove in Early Modern England

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book explores how gloves shaped and reflected gender relations in early modern society. By examining the cultural, economic, and political significance of gloves, it reveals how these everyday objects both reinforced and challenged gender ideologies of the time.The study demonstrates that gloves were far more than simple accessories—they were powerful symbols that helped construct social hierarchies and express various forms of authority and agency. Through their material presence and symbolic meaning, gloves participated in complex dialogues about gender, power, and identity. Drawing on methodologies from history, archaeology, anthropology, geography, art history, material culture studies, performance studies, and disability studies, this interdisciplinary approach examines how physical objects and bodily practices intersected to create meaning. The analysis focuses on the tangible relationships between people, objects, and power structures, showing how material culture actively shaped social relations rather than simply reflecting them.This work contributes to our understanding of how gender operated in early modern contexts, demonstrating that power relations were constructed through everyday interactions with material objects like gloves.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-29
Mått174 x 246 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieVisual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Antal sidor398
FörlagAmsterdam University Press
ISBN9789462987104

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James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Plymouth and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has produced 14 books including The Material Letter (2012), Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (2006), and over 50 articles on early modern letter-writing, gender, politics, culture and materiality.Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern Studies and Director of the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University. Her publications examine women, gender, emotional and cultural practices in the early modern world. She is General Editor of the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Gender (2026).

AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Gender and the Early Modern GloveSection 1. Matter, Materials, Meanings1. The Matter of Gloves: Gender in the Making of Matter2. Gender and the Making of MaterialsSection 2. Producing Handwear, Making Identities3. Body Work: Gendered Processes of Handwear Production4. By Design: Personalising HandwearSection 3. Trading Affects, Consuming Bodies 5. Gender Mobilities and Exchanges: Handwear Trade and Retail6. Bodies of Desire, Buying GlovesSection 4. Rituals, Practices and Experiences7. Powerful Transactions: Gloves as Gifts8. Ceremonies of the Everyday: Gloves, Tangibility and Ritual9. Hand/Wear and Tear: Material and Bodily RelationsSection 5. Moving Gloves, Object-Subject Epistemological Agencies 10. Curating Selves: Glove as Archives11. Participatory Gloves: Making Gender History in the MuseumConclusionBibliographyIndex