In Garments Against Women, Anne Boyer explores issues rooted in a personal, individual mode of discourse—including writing, motherhood, the expectations versus reality of life as a woman, sewing, shopping, and economic instability—and traces their broader social and political significance. An epigraph from Mary Wollstonecraft sets a tone of feminist inquiry.
The prose poems in Garments Against Women, which vary widely in length, are grouped into four segments. The text includes quoted speech and occasional quotes from other writers, including an extended engagement with an out-of-print self-help book called The Strategies and Tactics of Happiness Volume I: Background by Maynard Shelley. Other forms include a recipe for “a chocolate cake for when you only own one small round pan.”
Boyer cites the sources she has referenced throughout the book in a “Notes and Acknowledgements” section at the end.
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