Cheryl Buckley (born 1956) is a British design historian whose research has focused on

feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

approaches to

design history Design history is the study of objects of design in their historical and stylistic contexts. With a broad definition, the contexts of design history include the social, the cultural, the economic, the political, the technical and the aesthetic. ...

. She has published on British ceramic design and

fashion Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, Fashion accessory, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into Clothing, outfits that depict distinct ...

. Her works include the influential article "Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design" (1986) and the books ''Potters and Paintresses'' (1990) and ''Designing Modern Britain'' (2007). She was professor of fashion and design history at the

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from 2013 to 2021, and was previously professor of design history at

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. In 2021, she was made Professor Emerita at the University of Brighton.

Education and career

Buckley attended the

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, gaining a degree in

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and architecture (1977). She received a master's degree in

from

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(1982). She returned to the University of East Anglia for her PhD in design history, awarded in 1991. She worked from 1980 at Newcastle Polytechnic in

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, renamed

in 1992, latterly as professor of design history, before joining the

in 2013, where she is professor of

and design history. In 2017, she and Jeremy Aynsley established the Centre for Design History at Brighton. In 2000, she co-founded the journal '' Visual Culture in Britain''. She chaired the Design History Society (2006–09) and served as editor-in-chief of its journal, the '' Journal of Design History'' (2011–16).

Research and writings

Buckley states her current research interests as

gender Gender is the range of social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man (or boy), woman (or girl), or third gender. Although gender often corresponds to sex, a transgender person may identify with a gender other tha ...

and design, and has been described as a

design historian. She has published on ceramic design and fashion, focusing on Britain from the mid-

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. Slightly different definitions are sometimes used. The era followed the ...

to the present day. Her article "Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design", published in '' Design Issues'' in 1986, opens: In the article, described as "seminal" by Victor Margolin and "ground-breaking" by Grace Lees-Maffei,Grace Lees-Maffei, "Judith Attfield", in ''The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design'', Vol. 1 (Clive Edwards, ed.) (Bloomsbury Academic; 2016), pp. 96–97 () (Downloaded fro

25 November 2020) Buckley teases out design contributions made by women, and suggests that craft arts have been ignored in the study of design history. In her first book, ''Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry, 1870–1955'' (1990), Buckley discusses the participation of women in ceramic design during this period. In ''Fashioning the Feminine: Representation and Women's Fashion from the Fin de Siècle to the Present'' (2002), Buckley and co-author Hilary Fawcett review fashion in Britain from 1890, highlighting its interaction with both

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and

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as well as its "paradoxical" relationship with

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. More recently, Buckley co-authored ''Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York'' with Hazel Clark (2017). In her second sole-authored book, ''Designing Modern Britain'' (2007), Buckley surveys British design between 1890 and 2001, broadly chronologically via numerous case studies. She employs a broad definition of design, which she considers "a matrix of interdependent practices", encompassing

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

town planning Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...

interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. With a keen eye for detail and a Creativity, creative flair, an ...

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is al ...

textile Textile is an Hyponymy and hypernymy, umbrella term that includes various Fiber, fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, Staple (textiles)#Filament fiber, filaments, Thread (yarn), threads, and different types of #Fabric, fabric. ...

s, and fashion.

Selected publications

Books Source: * * * * Research articles Cheryl Buckley (2020), 'Made in Patriarchy II: Researching (or Re-searching) Women and Design', Design Issues, volume 36, number 1, Winter 2020, 19-29.https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00572 * *

References

External links

Profile at the University of Brighton
{{DEFAULTSORT:Buckley, Cheryl 1956 births Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Alumni of Newcastle University Academics of Northumbria University Academics of the University of Brighton Design researchers British social historians British women art historians 20th-century English historians 21st-century English historians 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers