Garments Against Women

''Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange: Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it. Do you mean nothing at all - just darkness - or a world without objects? I mean a world without things: no houses, chairs, or cars. A world with only people and trees and dirt. What do you think would happen? People would make things. We would make things with trees and dirt. ' When the cold comes, when our needs announce themselves, it is with clothing, with possessions, in literature, through dreams - in all the forms and categories that shape, contain and constrain - that we keep ourselves alive. Yet, in a society in which some are rich and some are poor, who gets to dream, and who invents our forms? This is a book made of money and the lack of money; of writing and of not-writing; of illness and of care; of low-rent apartments, cake-baking mothers, Socratic daughters and bodies that refuse to become information.

Product details

• Authors: Anne Boyer, Boyer Anne
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780141990217
• ISBN: 978-0-14-199021-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, Feminism & feminist theory, Fashion & society, Political Economy, Feminism and feminist theory, Cultural studies: fashion and society, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Cultural studies: dress and society