This volume of essays, by art historians and museum professionals, offers interpretations of how gender – both masculinity and femininity – is made manifest in material goods and their representations, consistently pointing out the role of these is not only in reflecting, but also constructing the gendered self. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings, mantillas, almanacs, reticules, silver punch bowls, and collage.