Women Potters: Transforming Traditions

Vincentelli, Moira, Women Potters: Transforming Traditions (London: A and C Black, 2003) RAE2008

This works proposes that a women's tradition in ceramics is one in which pottery making is a gendered activity intimately connected with female identity. The knowledge is passed down from one generation to the next. It guides the reader through these traditions continent by continent. Different areas are illustrated with beautiful, detailed maps and fascinating colour photographs from around the world.