Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

A fragmentary, investigative meditation that treats clothing as a site where gendered control, labor exploitation, and personal history intersect: blending memoir, cultural criticism, and archival inquiry to trace how garments shape, discipline, and commodify women’s bodies and lives. Through intimate family memories, reflections on sewing and thrift stores, and research into textile production and fashion’s supply chains, it exposes the capitalist and colonial forces woven into everyday dress and insists on attending to the political meanings stitched into material culture.