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Hatton, Nikolina. The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789–1832. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49111-6.

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Wiesner-Hanks, Merry, ed. Challenging Women's Agency and Activism in Early Modernity. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729321.

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Examining women’s agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Women’s Marches, and the global #MeToo movement. The essays in this collection consider women’s agency in the Renaissance and early modern period, an era that also saw both increasing patriarchal constraints and new forms of women’s actions and activism. They address a capacious set of questions about how women, from their teenage years through older adulthood, asserted agency through social practices, speech acts, legal disputes, writing, viewing and exchanging images, travel, and community building. Despite family and social pressures, the actions of girls and women could shape their lives and challenge male-dominated institutions. This volume includes thirteen essays by scholars from various disciplines, which analyze people, texts, objects, and images from many different parts of Europe, as well as things and people that crossed the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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Larson, Bob. UFOs and the alien agenda. Nashville, Tenn: T. Nelson, 1997.

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Wilson, Clifford A. The alien agenda. New York: New American Library, 1988.

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Appiah, Frank. Procurement Agent: Leelus Programming (Object Enacted Language). Uk: Open Library, 2020.

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Israel, David J. The role of propositional objects of belief in action. Menlo Park, CA (333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park 94025): Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987.

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Larson, Bob. UFOs and the alien agenda. Nashville, Tenn: T. Nelson, 1997.

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Skarmeas, Nikolaos. Agents as objects with knowledge base state. London: Imperial College Press, 1999.

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Turner, Karla. Taken: Inside the alien-human abduction agenda. Roland, Ark: Kelt Works, 1994.

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Etienne, Noemie, and Yaelle Biro. Rhapsodic Objects: Art, Agency, and Materiality. De Gruyter, Inc., 2022.

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Versluys, Miguel John. Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style and Agency. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2020.

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Versluys, Miguel John. Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style and Agency. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2020.

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Versluys, Miguel John. Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style and Agency. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2019.

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Etienne, Noemie, and Yaelle Biro. Rhapsodic Objects: Art, Agency, and Materiality. de Gruyter GmbH, Walter, 2021.

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Walsh, Denis M. Objectcy and Agency. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0008.

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Organisms are like nothing else in the natural world. They are agents. Methodological vitalism is a view according to which the difference that organisms make to the natural world cannot be captured wholly if we treat them as mere objects. Understanding agency calls for a different kind of theory, an agent theory. Most of our scientific theories are object theories. The modern synthesis theory of evolution is a prominent example of object theory. Being the way it is, it cannot countenance the contribution to evolution that organisms make as agents. A comprehensive account of adaptive evolution requires an agent theory.
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Hulme, Alison. Entangled Things: Objects Beyond Agency and Disposability. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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Grave, Johannes, Christiane Holm, Caroline van Eck, and Valérie Kobi. Agency of Display: Objects, Framings and Parerga. Sandstein Kommunikation GmbH, 2019.

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Ziemba, Antoni, Jan Burzynski, and Zuzanna Sarnecka. Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 1380-1520. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2021.

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Ziemba, Antoni, Jan Burzynski, and Zuzanna Sarnecka. Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 1380-1520. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2021.

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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. Women of Substance in Homeric Epic: Objects, Gender, Agency. Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Ziemba, Antoni, Jan Burzynski, and Zuzanna Sarnecka. Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 1380-1520. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2021.

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Ziemba, Antoni, Jan Burzynski, and Zuzanna Sarnecka. Agency of Art Objects in Northern Europe, 1380-1520. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2021.

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Hatton, Nikolina. Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things. Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.

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Hatton, Nikolina. Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things. Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

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Jones, Andrew M., and Nicole Boivin. The Malice of Inanimate Objects. Edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199218714.013.0014.

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The concept of ‘material agency’ and the attendant concept of materiality has been widely adopted in the recent literature in archaeology and anthropology, yet its meaning has been widely misunderstood. Typical responses treat the concept as a step too far or as employed mainly for its shock value rather than for any higher intellectual purpose. This article argues that the perceived problems with the concept of material agency in archaeology and anthropology derive from similarly narrow conceptions. The article begins by outlining the semiotic view of material culture that emerged during the 1970s and 1980s, and how recent critiques of this view have prompted scholars to address notions of materiality and material agency. The article then summarizes some of the long history of the notion of material agency, in a range of disciplines from economics to anthropology. The article addresses concepts of material agency in the work of scholars from Karl Marx and Marshall McLuhan to Anthony Giddens and Alfred Gell. It then discusses differing ontologies of agency, including animism and fetishism, in which material agency plays a key role.
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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. The Politics of Objects. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826309.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 offers different models and parameters of female agency. Iliadic and Odyssean women are differentiated in terms of their roles in war- and peacetime respectively, and the ways in which Andromache and Helen weave are used as case studies for ‘normal’ and ‘exceptional’ female characters. The chapter engages closely with these exceptional women, bringing together Helen and Penelope in terms of their liminal position in society and the elevated agency that allows. Drawing on feminist literature on female communicative channels and the potentially liberating power of technology, this chapter then presents the ‘politics of objects’: the creation and distribution of textiles through which supposedly ‘commodified’ characters create their own kind of commerce, and their own way of communicating.
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Barber, Michael D. Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency. Edited by Dan Zahavi. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755340.013.18.

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Aron Gurwitsch and Alfred Schutz differ over the paramount reality, with Schutz stressing the importance of meaningful action in everyday life and Gurwitsch the perception of objects in objective time. On the ego, Schutz and Husserl rightly argue for its epistemological accessibility, while Gurwitsch defends a non-egological consciousness that seems counterpoised to the self-appropriating, agential ego of Husserl and Schutz. However, Gurwitsch’s endorsement of Sartre’s non-egological consciousness might have facilitated a rapprochement with the agency to be found in Schutz’s and Husserl’s egological accounts. John Drummond’s criticisms of Gurwitsch’s phenomenalist account of the object suggest an object less appropriate for interaction with the bodily agency that Schutz highlights. Gurwitsch pays less attention to agency insofar as he extends his noematic focus to the ultimate ontological suppositions of various orders of being. The differences between Schutz and Gurwitsch on agency result from their diverging overarching strategies within a common phenomenological framework.
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Sun, Yan, Francis Allard, and Kathryn M. Linduff. Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Semple, Sarah. A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age. Edited by Julie Lund. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474206891.

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time. Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life worlds and object worlds in medieval society. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
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Bildhauer, Bettina. Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond. Ohio State University Press, 2020.

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Sajed, Alina. Women as Objects and Commodities. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.363.

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The engagement between the discipline of international relations (IR) and feminist theory has led to an explosion of concerns about the inherent gendered dimension of a supposedly gender-blind field, and has given rise to a rich and complex array of analyses that attempt to capture the varied aspects of women’s invisibility, marginalization, and objectification within the discipline. The first feminist engagements within IR have pointed not only to the manner in which women are rendered invisible within the field, but also to IR’s inherent masculinity, which masks itself as a neutral and universally valid mode of investigation of world politics. Thus, the initial feminist incursions into IR’s discourse took the form of a conscious attempt both to bridge the gap between IR and feminist theory and to bring gender into IR, or, in other words, to make the field aware that “women are relevant to policy.” In the 1990s, feminist literature undertook incisive analyses of women’s objectification and commodification within the global economy. By the end of the 1990s and into the first decade of the 21st century, the focus turned to an accounting for the agency of diverse women as they are located within complex sociopolitical contexts. The core concern of this inquiry lay with the diversification of feminist methodologies, especially as it related to the experience of women in non-Western societies.
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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. Women of Substance in Homeric Epic. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826309.001.0001.

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Women in Greek epic are treated as objects, as commodities to be exchanged in marriage or as the spoils of warfare. However, women also use objects to negotiate their own agency, subverting the male viewpoint by using the very form they themselves are thought by men to embody. Female objects in Homer can be symbolically significant and powerfully characterizing. They can be tools of recognition and identification. They can pause narrative and be used agonistically. They can send messages and be vessels for memory. This book brings together Gender Theory and the burgeoning field of New Materialisms, combining an approach predicated on the idea of the woman as object with one which questions the very distinction between subject and object. This productive tension leads us to decentre the male subject—and to put centre stage not only the woman as object but also the agency of women and objects. Homeric women are shown to be not only objectified but also well-versed users of objects. This is something that Homer portrays clearly, that Odysseus understands—but that has often escaped many other men, from Odysseus’ alter ego Aethon in Odyssey 19 to modern experts on Homeric epic.
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Nail, Thomas. Theory of the Object. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474487924.001.0001.

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Throughout the history of science and technology, objects have been understood in many ways but rarely have they been understood to play an active role in the production of knowledge. This has led to largely anthropocentric theories and histories of science, which treat nature as passive objects viewed by independent observers. Thomas Nail approaches the theory of objects historically in order to tell a completely new story in which objects themselves are the true agents of scientific knowledge. They are processes, not things. It is the first history of science and technology, from prehistory to the present, to illuminate the agency, knowledge and mobility of objects.
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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. How Far Are We from a Hot Bath? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826309.003.0002.

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Chapter 1 places this book against a backdrop of New Materialisms, using the framework of Thing Theory in its various manifestations to unpack seemingly innocuous but in reality surprisingly loaded terms like ‘object’ and ‘agent’, and raising the question of boundaries: to what extent does the Materialist slogan ‘Things are us!’ apply to Homer? It explores the issue of representation and the substantial difference it makes to the status of objects and the location of agency, and tackles the productive tension between this book’s core approaches: Gender Theory and New Materialism. The historical and social ramifications of the book are addressed, and some initial dichotomies and categories begin to be drawn out, with a particular focus on memory.
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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. Uncontainable Things. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826309.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 deploys a range of case studies to push the analysis beyond the bounds of the Homeric poems, into the Hesiodic corpus (broadly defined). One recurring object type—the jar—is used to compare the central themes, concerns, and perspectives of each of the poems in which it appears, in order to offer an example of the extent to which ‘attentiveness to things’ can nuance our reading, not only of one poem, but of a range of poetry together. This intertextuality of objects is further tested in the Catalogue of Women, an ideal site for an extended exploration of the relationship between women, objects, and agency.
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Kingdon, Zachary, and Kathryn Brown. Ethnographic Collecting and African Agency in Early Colonial West Africa: A Study of Trans-Imperial Cultural Flows. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

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Morgan, David. The Ecology of Images. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190272111.003.0005.

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The focal object is a key concept throughout this book, and it has its primary exposition in this chapter, which describes the space in which images function. Building on the idea of an image as a device, this chapter discusses how images operate before viewers and within visual fields that encompass them. The cult image, the relic, the place where Our Lady appeared, the site of the miraculous spring, oracle, or vision—such objects and places are where one meets the supernatural by forgetting the complex ecology and history in which the image or object is embedded. This masking of the manifold aspects of the network enables the ascription of agency to the focal object rather than to the extended assemblage of diverse actors forming the network.
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Schindel, David E., Diane C. DiEuliis, and Bruce Geyman. The Unique Role of Federal Scientific Collections: Infrastructure Generating Benefits, Serving Diverse Agency Missions. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.24559996.

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<p dir="ltr">Scientific research and development are essential in the government, private, and academic sectors of American society. Scientific collections, both living and non-living, are critical components of the U.S. government’s R&D infrastructure, essential for ensuring national security, protecting the public’s health and safe food supply, promoting innovation and economic growth, and protecting the environment. To pursue their diverse long-term missions, U.S. departments and agencies have created and preserve scientific collections to address new and unpredictable challenges to society and to establish long-term baseline histories for the analysis of change, often using new analytical technologies. Federal scientific collections serve the public good by providing access to objects of scientific value regardless of where, when, by whom, or for what reasons they were originally collected and preserved. </p><p dir="ltr">The White House National Science and Technology Council’s Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections (IWGSC) has, since 2005, convened representatives from 24 Federal departments and agencies that rely on scientific collections. IWGSC has produced a series of studies, reports, and other information resources aimed at improving policies, transparency, accessibility, management, and the assessment of costs and benefits related to Federal scientific collections. This report summarizes these achievements and the IWGSC's future directions, and presents 21 case studies showing how Federal scientific collections have served the nation in diverse areas of American life. </p>
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Dodds, Klaus. 1. It’s essential to be geopolitical! Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199676781.003.0001.

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At times of war and crisis, the focus on territorial and resource-related themes looms large. In recent years, our media outlets have been filled with stories about territorial-ethnic struggles in the Middle East, land purchasing in Africa, food insecurity, and austerity programs throughout the world. ‘It's essential to be geopolitical!’ argues the case for situating geopolitics within everyday contexts and advocates an approach that does not fixate with territorially defined states, big powers, and particular agents like US presidents. Geopolitics is embodied, experiential, and impactful. Objects (e.g. flags) and non-human actors and forces (e.g. hurricanes and ice) should be seen to be operating alongside human agents and agency.
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Gorodeisky, Keren. Rationally Agential Pleasure? A Kantian Proposal. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190225100.003.0009.

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This chapter argues that, on Kant’s account, aesthetic pleasure is an exercise of rational agency insofar as, when proper, (1) it involves consciousness of its ground (the reasons for having it) and thus of itself as properly responsive to its object, and (2) actually feeling this pleasure involves its endorsement as an attitude to have. I claim that seeing this clearly requires that we divest ourselves of the following dilemma: either pleasures are the noncognitive, passive ways through which we are affected by objects or they are cognitive states by virtue of the theoretical beliefs or practical desires they involve. On my reading of Kant, this dilemma is false. Aesthetic pleasure is neither passive, nor theoretically or practically cognitive, and yet, it is an exercise of rational agency by virtue of belonging to a domain of rationality that is largely overlooked in the history of philosophy: aesthetic rationality.
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Merricks, Trenton. Objects and Persons. Oxford University Press, USA, 2003.

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Merricks, Trenton. Objects and Persons. Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Merricks, Trenton. Objects and Persons. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2001.

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Merricks, Trenton. Objects and Persons. Oxford University Press, USA, 2001.

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edition, agenda. Agenda Objectif 30: Agenda et Planificateur Pour Organiser Vos Semaines Afin d'atteindre Vos Objectifs. Independently Published, 2020.

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édition, agenda. Agenda Objectif 30: Agenda et Planificateur Pour Organiser Vos Semaines Afin d'atteindre Vos Objectifs. Independently Published, 2020.

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Downes, Stephanie, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles, eds. Feeling Things. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.001.0001.

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This volume investigates the various interactions of people, feelings, and things throughout pre-modern Europe. The subject of materiality has been gaining interest in recent historical inquiry, alongside growing emphasis on the relationships between objects, emotions, and affect in archaeological and sociological research. The historical intersections between materiality and emotions, however, have remained under-theorized, particularly with respect to objects which have continuing resonance over extended periods of time, or across cultural and geographical space. The book addresses this need to develop an appropriate cross-disciplinary theoretical framework for analysing the emotional meanings of objects in European history. It draws together an international group of historians, art historians, curators, and literary scholars working on a variety of cultural, literary, visual, and material sources. Objects considered include books, letters, prosthetics, religious relics, shoes, stone, and textiles, and individual chapters address the ways in which emotions such as despair, fear, grief, hope, love, and wonder become inscribed in and ascribed to these items, producing ‘emotional objects’ of significance and agency.
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Canevaro, Lilah Grace. Introduction: The Proggy Mat. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826309.003.0001.

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Through an initial anecdote, the Introduction begins by demonstrating that people and things communicate with and through each other. The story offers a way in to issues that will be central to the book, such as authorship and tradition, representation and imagination, communication and the negotiation of agency. From it comes the hypothesis that the relationship between objects and agency is coloured, influenced, even constituted by gender roles. It then offers a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book and concludes with a set of methodological reflections that highlight the importance of a critical approach to the New Materialisms, and the advantages of their combination with Gender Theory.
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Clark, Nicola. ‘Trashe baguaige and many od endes’. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784814.003.0003.

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For elites, material culture told their dynastic story and was also used to construct, or re-construct, it. Women’s place in this remains complex. They were much more likely to own and control objects like jewels, clothes, and furniture than they were land or property. They were also involved in the production, design, and purchase of these objects, and there are definably female patterns of exchange throughout society. However, the use of material culture is often considered as a collective enterprise within families like the Howards. Though many scholars maintain that a woman’s primary role was to support their husband’s family, material evidence for the Howards shows that they were able to use objects to transmit their complex accumulation of familial identities. In doing so, they also used material culture to enhance their social standing, to secure political alliance, and to cement ties of familial affection and friendship, thereby revealing an intense level of direct agency.

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