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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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction: Gender and the Early Modern Glove
Section 1. Matter, Materials, Meanings
1. The Matter of Gloves: Gender in the Making of Matter
2. Gender and the Making of Materials
Section 2. Producing Handwear, Making Identities
3. Body Work: Gendered Processes of Handwear Production
4. By Design: Personalising Handwear
Section 3. Trading Affects, Consuming Bodies
5. Gender Mobilities and Exchanges: Handwear Trade and Retail
6. Bodies of Desire, Buying Gloves
Section 4. Rituals, Practices and Experiences
7. Powerful Transactions: Gloves as Gifts
8. Ceremonies of the Everyday: Gloves, Tangibility and Ritual
9. Hand/Wear and Tear: Material and Bodily Relations
Section 5. Moving Gloves, Object-Subject Epistemological Agencies
10. Curating Selves: Glove as Archives
11. Participatory Gloves: Making Gender History in the Museum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index



