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Article: Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture.(Book review)
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture. By Will Fisher. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. pp. xii + 223. 53 [pounds sterling]. isbn: 978-0-521-85851-9.
Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture extends the current interest in everyday material objects into four very specific areas that help to illuminate the conceptual field of gender and the social and discursive practices in and through which it operated. Handkerchiefs (chapter 1), codpieces (chapter 2), beards (chapter 3), and hair (chapter 4) are regarded as accessories that have a ...