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It’s a question that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? Based on her new book, Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close, Hannah Carlson, shows us how we tuck gender politics, security, sexuality, and privilege inside our pockets.
Hannah Carlson is a senior lecturer in apparel design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She trained as a conservator of costume and textiles at the Fashion Institute of Technology and in 2009 earned a Ph.D. in Material Culture from Boston University. Hannah Carlson conducted research for her recent book, Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close during her Stephen Botein Fellowship at AAS in 2006-07. She also led the American Studies Seminar, "Dressing Democracy: Clothing and Culture in America," at AAS in 2011.
