A collection of essays that provides case studies of women who produced material objects. It deals with the women's complex and active engagement with material culture in the various stages of the material object's life cycle, from design and production to consumption, use, and redeployment. 'This is an important interdisciplinary and international contribution to a current wave of scholarship attending to decorative arts and crafts with critical and theoretical vigour. ... Women and Things is a welcome addition to recent debates about material culture, gender and the social and historical significance of all the things that we make, shape and create, either on an everyday basis or as one-off luxuries.' Gender & History