11 juin 2019
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Benjamin Ringot, « Veille - Publication : Barbara Burman & Ariane Fennetaux « The pocket. A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900 » (Yale University Press , 28 mai 2019) », CRCV, ID : 10.58079/nbb9
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This first book-length 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 was...