1st Edition
Gender and the Glove in Early Modern England
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
Biography
James Daybell is Professor of Early Modern British History at the University of Plymouth and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He has produced 14 books including The Material Letter (2012), Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England (2006), and over 50 articles on early modern letter-writing, gender, politics, culture and materiality.
Susan Broomhall is Professor of Early Modern Studies and Director of the Gender and Women’s History Research Centre at the Australian Catholic University. Her publications examine women, gender, emotional and cultural practices in the early modern world. She is General Editor of the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Gender (2026).
