The Things She Carried provides a thorough and surprising examination of the purse--an object that generations of Americans have used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives over the last two centuries. Kathleen Casey examines a variety of sources and finds purses at fraught historical moments, where they serve important symbolic, psychological, or economic functions for their users.
The Things She Carried provides a thorough and surprising examination of the purse--an object that generations of Americans have used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives over the last two centuries. Kathleen Casey examines a variety of sources and finds purses at fraught historical moments, where they serve important symbolic, psychological, or economic functions for their users.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kathleen Casey is Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Professor of History at Furman University in South Carolina. She is the author of The Prettiest Girl on Stage is a Man: Race and Gender Benders in American Vaudeville.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * List of Figures * Introduction: The Possibilities of the Purse * Chapter 1: 'This Sack So full': Enslaved Women's Use of Bags in Antebellum America * Chapter 2: Purses and Pathbreaking Women * Chapter 3: Working Women: Space and Pocketbooks at the Turn of the Century * Chapter 4: The Bag and the Body: Purses and Personal Hygiene * Chapter 5: Pickets, Protests, and Purses in the Civil Rights Movement * Chapter 6: "Keith Carried a Clutch": Queer Communities and Purses in the late Twentieth Century * Epilogue * Bibliography
* Acknowledgements * List of Figures * Introduction: The Possibilities of the Purse * Chapter 1: 'This Sack So full': Enslaved Women's Use of Bags in Antebellum America * Chapter 2: Purses and Pathbreaking Women * Chapter 3: Working Women: Space and Pocketbooks at the Turn of the Century * Chapter 4: The Bag and the Body: Purses and Personal Hygiene * Chapter 5: Pickets, Protests, and Purses in the Civil Rights Movement * Chapter 6: "Keith Carried a Clutch": Queer Communities and Purses in the late Twentieth Century * Epilogue * Bibliography
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