Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between, this interdisciplinary volume enriches the study of material culture as a scholarly field. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects, and reveal the impossibility of permanently fixing gender in relation to material goods, concepts, or bodies.