The gendered power of porcelain among early modern European dynasties
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Broomhall, Susan and Van Gent, Jacqueline. (2017). The gendered power of porcelain among early modern European dynasties. In In J. Daybell and S. Norrhem (Ed.). Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 pp. 49 - 67 Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542188
Authors | Broomhall, Susan and Van Gent, Jacqueline |
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Editors | J. Daybell and S. Norrhem |
Abstract | [Extract] This chapter analyses how porcelain became a tool of power for early modern women and men, in specific and distinct ways, over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We explore porcelain’s trajectory as a gendered political tool as it was displayed, exchanged and maintained by elite dynasties, particularly those connected with the House of Orange-Nassau, and as it was adopted by other ruling families to convey messages of power. 1 We argue that neither men nor women were passive consumers of such material objects but instead used porcelain to make and display power and to perform political work. |
Keywords | porcelain; power; politics; women |
Page range | 49 - 67 |
Year | 2017 |
Book title | Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1800 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Place of publication | London |
ISBN | 9781315542188 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315542188 |
Scopus EID | 2-s2.0-85022055793 |
Research Group | Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences |
Publisher's version | File Access Level Controlled |
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