Article ID: CBB851564484

Ein weiteres Kleid – Zur Wissensgeschichte häuslich-textiler Umgebungen im 19. Jahrhundert (A More Ample Garment—Domestic Textiles and Environmental Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century) (March 2021)

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Drawing on sources such as home furnishing manuals, hygiene and household guidebooks, as well as literary texts, this article examines how the nineteenth-century domestic interior can be regarded as a functional environment regulated by textiles. In the debate about the correct usage of furnishing textiles in line with contemporary aesthetic and sanitary standards, women were held responsible for regulating these textile environments. While on the one hand this led to a supposedly natural and mechanical conflation of women and domestic space which has often been interpreted as restrictive and encapsulating, my aim is to identify a specific feminine agency that has its origin in the home but is not limited to it. By tracing the negotiations of this gendered textile expertise in different fields of knowledge and forms of representation, this article reevaluates the relationship between textiles, domesticity and femininity in the nineteenth century.

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Article Susanne Schmidt; Lisa Malich (March 2021) Cocooning: Umwelt und Geschlecht. Einleitung (Cocooning: Environment and Gender. Introduction). NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 1-10). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Käthe von Bose
Martin Gibbs
Hong, Jiang
Mille, Martine
Fiorilli, Olivia
Kümin, Beat
Concepts
Households
Domesticity
Household technology
Hygiene
Gender identity
Food and foods
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
17th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
England
United States
Great Britain
Spain
Italy
France
Institutions
Smithsonian Institution
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