On shoplifting: Whitlo (.)ġ Many forms of material culture – furniture, jewelry, shoes, clothing, tableware, toys, kitchen equipment, bicycles and radios – have drawn the eye of historians of gender and sexuality. 2 The best text on textiles and fetishism is Tisseron-Papetti & Tisseron 1987.1 For a succinct argument for the importance of textiles see: Burns 2004a.