# Garments Against Women

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- Book: [Garments Against Women](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-boyer/garments-against-women) ([Garments Against Women.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-boyer/garments-against-women.md))
- Authors: [Anne Boyer](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-boyer)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-021-7
- Pages: 112
- Published: 2019-09-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Around that time my daughter and I had this exchange: Anne, imagine if the world had nothing in it. Do you mean nothing at all - just darkness - or a world without objects? I mean a world without things: no houses, chairs, or cars. A world with only people and trees and dirt. What do you think would happen? People would make things. We would make things with trees and dirt. ' When the cold comes, when our needs announce themselves, it is with clothing, with possessions, in literature, through dreams - in all the forms and categories that shape, contain and constrain - that we keep ourselves alive. Yet, in a society in which some are rich and some are poor, who gets to dream, and who invents our forms? This is a book made of money and the lack of money; of writing and of not-writing; of illness and of care; of low-rent apartments, cake-baking mothers, Socratic daughters and bodies that refuse to become information.