'Why are pens seldom gendered while shoes are? Why should girls play with dolls and not boys? Gender and Material Culture is a unique contribution to what has been defined as a material turn in history, covering hitherto unexplored areas of the complex relationship between gender and material things in Britain since the seventeenth century.' - Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick, UK Biografía del autor Hannah Greig is Senior Lecturer in History and a member of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York, UK. Jane Hamlett is Reader in Modern British History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK, where she is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture.Leonie Hannan is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities at Queen's University, Belfast, UK.