Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900

This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women`s everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore their consumption practices, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. A wealth of evidence reveals unexpected facets of the past, bringing women`s stories into intimate focus.