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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 ongoing scholarly redefinition of women's relationship to creative activity. Focusing on women as producers of cultural products and creators of social value, the contributors treat women as active subjects and problematize their material practices and artifacts in t...

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 use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women¿s material practices are explored as well as women¿s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation i...

Providing a cross-cultural perspective on consumption, the volume builds upon and complicates the idea that consumption, as a form of meaning making, is key to the construction of gendered, classed, and national identities. The volume's global perspective and comparative framework will recalibrate ongoing discussions about consumption and domesticity, dress and identity, and desire and subjectivity.

Explored in this volume are women's material practices, which range from production within the fields of fine and decorative arts, including needlework and sculpture, to the bricoleur's re-use of natural and fabricated objects in such activities as fancy work, paper arts, and scrapbooking. Also, theorized and described are the ways in which women engaged in meaning making, identity formation, and commemoration through their production and mani...

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 use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women¿s material practices are explored as well as women¿s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation i...

Explored in this volume are women's material practices, which range from production within the fields of fine and decorative arts, including needlework and sculpture, to the bricoleur's re-use of natural and fabricated objects in such activities as fancy work, paper arts, and scrapbooking. Also, theorized and described are the ways in which women engaged in meaning making, identity formation, and commemoration through their production and mani...

Providing a cross-cultural perspective on consumption, the volume builds upon and complicates the idea that consumption, as a form of meaning making, is key to the construction of gendered, classed, and national identities. The volume's global perspective and comparative framework will recalibrate ongoing discussions about consumption and domesticity, dress and identity, and desire and subjectivity.