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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Editors’ foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: How Do I Love Thee? Objects of Endearment in Contemporary Culture
SECTION 1: The Lives of Objects
1 ‘I Love Giving Presents’: The Emotion of Material Culture
2 (S)mother’s Love, or, Baby Knitting
3 Sex, Birth and Nurture Unto Death: Patching Together Quilted Bed Covers
SECTION 2: Projecting and Subverting Identities
4 Bringing Out The Past: Courtly Cruising and Nineteenth-Century American Men’s Romantic Friendship Portraits
5 The Genteel Craft of Subversion: Amateur Female Shoemaking in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
6 Performing Masculinity Through Objects in Postwar America: The Playboy’s Pipe
SECTION 3: Objects and Embodiment
7 Seduced by the Archive: A Personal and Working Relationship with the Archive and Collection of the London Couturier, Norman Hartnell
8 Kitsch, Enchantment and Power: The Bleeding Statues of Templemore in 1920
9 ‘Magic Toyshops’: Narrative and Meaning in the Women’s Sex Shop
SECTION 4: Mediating Relationships
10 Material Memories: The Making of a Collodion Memory-Text
11 The Problematic Decision to Live: Irish-Romanian Home-Making and the Anthropology of Uncertainty
12 Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences
Bibliography
Index
Copyright
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