Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Gender and Material Culture; 1 Gender and Material Culture in the Early Modern London Guilds; 2 Women's Letters: Eighteenth-Century Letter-Writing and the Life of the Mind; 3 Men's Hair: Managing Appearances in the Long Eighteenth Century; 4 Craftsmen in Common: Objects, Skills and Masculinity in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; 5 Stitching Women: Unpicking Histories of Victorian Clothes; 6 Grooming Men: The Material World of the Nineteenth-Century Barbershop; 7 Queer Things: Men and Make-up Between the Wars
8 Manly Drinkers: Masculinity and Material Culture in the Interwar Public HouseConcluding Remarks; Resources; Key Texts; Index
