Love objects : emotion, design and material culture / edited by Anna Moran and Sorcha O'Brien.

Other author Moran, Anna, editor.
Other author O'Brien, Sorcha.
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PublicationLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Descriptionxvii, 166 pages ; 25 cm
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Contents List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Editors' foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. How do I love thee? : objects of endearment in contemporary culture / Victor Margolin -- Section 1. The Lives of Objects. 1. 'I love giving presents' : the emotion of material culture / Louise Purbrick ; 2. (S)mother's love, or, Baby knitting / Jo Turney ; 3. Sex, birth and nurture unto death : patching together quilted bed covers / Catherine Harper -- Section 2. Projecting and Subverting Identities. 4. Bringing out the past : courtly cruising and nineteenth-century American men's romantic friendship portraits / Elizabeth Howie ; 5. The genteel craft of subversion : amateur female shoemaking in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Noreen McGuire ; 6. Performing masculinity through objects in postwar America : the playboy's pipe / Jessica Sewell -- 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 / Jane Hattrick ; 8. Kitsch, enchantment and power : the bleeding statues of Templemore in 1920 / Ann Wilson ; 9. 'Magic toyshops' : narrative and meaning in the women's sex shop / Fran Carter -- Section 4. Mediating Relationships. 10. Material memories : the making of a collodion memory-text / Christina Edwards ; 11. The problematic decision to live : Irish-Romanian home-making and the anthropology of uncertainty / Adam Drazin ; 12. Designing meaningful and lasting user experiences / Jonathan Chapman -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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