Women’s Pockets: Function, Fashion, & Politics

Ashton-Lelliott, Beatrice. “Conjuring Clothes: Gendered Pockets and Ephemeral Afterlives in Victorian Performance Magic." In The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson, and Naomi Segal, Brill, 2024.

Bombardini, Silvia. “The Shoplifter’s Pockets: Unlawful Compartments in Womenswear, 1880-1920.” Brown, Jamieson and Segal, pp. 69-87. In The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson, and Naomi Segal, Brill, 2024.

Brown, James. “Pejorative Pockets from Shakespeare to Austen.” In The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson, and Naomi Segal, Brill, 2024.

Burman, Barbara and Ariane Fennetaux. The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660-1900. Yale University Press, 2019.

Carlson, Hannah. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close. Alonquin Books, 2023.

Das, Rituparna. “Catch Me If You Can. A Study of the Power Politics of Indian Women’s Secret Pockets.” In The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson, and Naomi Segal, Brill, 2024.

Fenneteaux, Ariane. “Women’s Pockets and the Construction of Privacy in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Eighteenth Century Fiction 20, no. 3 (2008): 307-34.

Spurrett, David and Brancazio, Nick. “Fashioning Affordances: A Critical Approach to Clothing as an Affordance Transforming Technology.” Philosophical Psychology 37, no. 7 (2024): 1899-1923.

Talcott, Samuel. “The Secreted Self: Modern Selfhood and the Pocket Schema in Contemporary Design.” In The Cultural Construction of Hidden Spaces: Essays on Pockets, Pouches and Secret Drawers, edited by James Brown, Anna Jamieson, and Naomi Segal, Brill, 2024.

Unsworth, Rebecca. Hands Deep in History: Pockets in Men and Women’s Dress in Western Europe, c. 1480-1630. Costume 51, no. 2 (2017): 148-70.

“Women’s tie-on pockets”. Produced as part of Bags: Inside Out. Victoria & Albert Museum Kensington, 13 October 2021-16 January 2022 https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/womens-tie-pockets srsltid=AfmBOorQS5O1cYPjiBNqbofQsajMsS6mcINKsHJKDGEZ4FsSywZBAQ0y