Front matter
Introduction: How Do I Love Thee? Objects of Endearment in Contemporary Culture
1–6
Section 1. The Lives of Objects
1. ‘I Love Giving Presents’: The Emotion of Material Culture 9–20
2. (S)mother’s Love, or, Baby Knitting 21–30
3. Sex, Birth and Nurture Unto Death: Patching Together Quilted Bed Covers 31–40
Section 2. Projecting and Subverting Identities
4. Bringing Out the Past: Courtly Cruising and Nineteenth-Century American Men’s Romantic Friendship Portraits 43–52
5. The Genteel Craft of Subversion: Amateur Female Shoemaking in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries 53–62
6. Performing Masculinity Through Objects in Postwar America: The Playboy’s Pipe 63–72
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 75–86
8. Kitsch, Enchantment and Power: The Bleeding Statues of Templemore in 1920 87–98
9. ‘Magic Toyshops’: Narrative and Meaning in the Women’s Sex Shop 99–110
Section 4. Mediating Relationships
10. Material Memories: The Making of a Collodion Memory-Text 113–124
11. The Problematic Decision to Live: Irish-Romanian Home-Making and the Anthropology of Uncertainty 125–136
12. Designing Meaningful and Lasting User Experiences 137–148
Back matter
Bibliography 149–160
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| 00204/20 | 152.41 Lov | Online | Available |