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Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation

Katja May
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affective social practice
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feminist
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material culture
needlework
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race
reactionary
society
textile crafts
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781350283626
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 29 May 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary. Using transnational, contemporary case studies – such as the Social Justice Sewing Academy, fictionalised Bangladeshi garment workers as well as the famous Pussyhat Project – Katja May suggests a new approach to the interpretation of textile crafts as an affective social practice, and draws on under-represented issues of race.

May connects her study to broader material and social conditions of inequality, allowing for a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the role of needlework in feminist political activism. This broader look at how textile crafts function in the realms of politics and activism conceptualizes quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting as routine activities invested with emotions and entangled with material and social conditions as well as political potential.
About Katja May
Katja May is an independent researcher, quilter and feminist activist. She has a PhD in English and Cultural Studies from the University of Kent and she has facilitated multiple feminist craftivism events. Her research interests include textile crafts, feminist activism, affect, social transformation and the phenomenology of making.

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