The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 16601900 - Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux

ANew York TimesBest Art Book of 2019

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