The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America

Author/Contributor(s):	Casey, Kathleen B
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	08/04/2025
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

The Things She Carried provides a thorough and surprising examination of the purse--an object that generations of Americans have used to achieve a host of social, cultural, and political objectives over the last two centuries. Kathleen Casey examines a variety of sources and finds purses at fraught historical moments, where they serve important symbolic, psychological, or economic functions for their users.