Actions for Pockets : an intimate history of how we keep things close

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Pockets : an intimate history of how we keep things close / Hannah Carlson

Author
Carlson, Hannah (Historian)
Published
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
vii, 310 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

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Contents
(from table of contents) Introduction -- Pocket origins: "carried close and secret" -- Pocket proliferation: housing "the workmanship of a hundred tradesmen" -- Pocket attitudes: "but what do your hands do in your pocket?" -- Pocket sexism: "why we oppose pockets for women" -- Pocket inventories: "not a penny was there in it" -- Pocket play: designing for "doubly decorative value" -- Pocket utopias: dreaming of a pocketless world.
Summary
"A social and design history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today, that uncovers what pockets reveal about us, our place in society, and how we move through the world"--
Why do men's clothes have so many pockets and women's so few? Why are the pockets on women's clothes too small to be practical-- if they open at all? Carlson examines issues of gender politics, security, sexuality, power and privilege-- all tucked inside our pockets. This takes a look at the social- and design-history of the sewn-in pocket, from the mid-1500s up to today. Will we still want pockets in the future when our clothes contain "smart" textiles that incorporate our IDs and credit cards? -- adapted from jacket
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ISBN
9781643751542 hardcover
1643751549 hardcover
9781643755489 electronic book
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references in "Notes" (pages 235-283) and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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