Material Lives Quotes

“Long dead and buried these women may be, but within each fragment of fabric and paper they endure.27”
― Serena Dyer, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

“The highly gendered framework of men as producers and women as consumers has been perpetuated through the exclusionary treatment of women’s making and artistic endeavours as a means to ensnare men.”
― Serena Dyer, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century