The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

Margaret Ponsonby David Hussey

ISBN 10: 1409418154 / ISBN 13: 9781409418153

Published by Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012

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pp. 252 Index.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409418154
• ISBN 13: 9781409418153
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Single Homemaker and Material Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century represents a new synthesis of gender history and material culture studies. It seeks to analyse the lives and cultural expression of single men and women from 1650 to 1850 within the main focus of domestic activity, the home. Whilst there is much scholarly interest in singleness and a raft of literature on the construction and apprehension of the home, no other book has sought to bring these discrete studies together. Similarly, scholarly work has been limited in evaluating gendered consumption practices during the long eighteenth century because of an emphasis on the homes of families. Analysing the practices of single people emphasises the differences, but also amplifies the similarities, in their strategies of domestic life.

About the Author

David Hussey is subject leader in History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and Margaret Ponsonby is Senior Lecturer in History and Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.