Cheryl Buckley

Cheryl Buckley (born 1956) is a British design historian whose research has focused on feminist approaches to design history. She has published on British ceramic design and fashion. 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 is professor of fashion and design history at the University of Brighton, as of 2021, and was previously professor of design history at Northumbria University.
Education and career.
Buckley attended the University of East Anglia, gaining a degree in history of art and architecture (1977). She received a masters degree in design history from Newcastle University (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 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, renamed Northumbria University in 1992, latterly as professor of design history, before joining the University of Brighton in 2013, where she is professor of fashion 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’s research interests are gender and design, and she has been described as a feminist design historian. She has published on ceramic design and fashion, focusing on Britain from the mid-Victorian era to the present day. Her article "Made in Patriarchy: Toward a Feminist Analysis of Women and Design", was published in "Design Issues" in 1986. 
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Her first book, "Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry, 1870–1955" (1990), built on her PhD thesis awarded from the University of East Anglia in 1991. In her second book, "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 and femininity as well as its "paradoxical" relationship with modernity. In her second sole-authored book, "Designing Modern Britain" (2007), Buckley surveys British design between 1890 and 2001, broadly chronological. Latterly Buckley co-authored "Fashion and Everyday Life: London and New York" with Hazel Clark (2017). 
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