Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950
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Aimee E. Newell
American Industrial Design
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Beverly Gordon
Bobbin Lace
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Carpet Designer
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Crazy Quilt
Cynthia Culver Prescott
Cynthia Fowler
Dakota
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domestic
domestic handicrafts research
Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
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feminist material culture
fibre arts history
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gendered craft practices
hand
Held
home
Home Dressmaking
Home Sewing
Homemade Clothing
hooked
Hooked Rugs
Inez Heather Pristash
Isabella Campagnol
Jenness Miller
Knitting
Knitting Bag
Laura A. Smith
Laurel Horton
Marcia Mclean
Marguerite Zorach
Marsha Macdowell
Maureen Daly Goggin
Michigan State University Museum
MoMA Exhibition
Needlework Industry
Pacific Slope
Post-war
rugs
Sarah Johnson
Schaechterle Sue Carter Wood
sewing
social construction of gender
Susan M. Strawn
textile production studies
Trousers
Underwear
Wartime
WCTU Member
Women's Domestic Work
women's fibre art scholarship
womens
Women’s Domestic Work
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- ISBN 9780754665380
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Rejecting traditional notions of what constitutes art, this book brings together essays on a variety of fiber arts to recoup women's artistic practices by redefining what counts as art. Although scholars over the last twenty years have turned their attention to fiber arts, redefining the conditions, practices, and products as art, there is still much work to be done to deconstruct the stubborn patriarchal art/craft binary. With essays on a range of fiber art practices, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting, machine stitching, rug making, weaving, and quilting, this collection contributes to the ongoing scholarly redefinition of women's relationship to creative activity. Focusing on women as producers of cultural products and creators of social value, the contributors treat women as active subjects and problematize their material practices and artifacts in the complex world of textiles. Each essay also examines the ways in which needlework both performs gender and, in turn, constructs gender. Moreover, in concentrating on and theorizing material practices of textiles, these essays reorient the study of fiber arts towards a focus on process”the making of the object, including the conditions under which it was made, by whom, and for what purpose”as a way to rethink the fiber arts as social praxis.
Maureen Daly Goggin is Associate Chair in the Department of English at Arizona State University, USA. Beth Fowkes Tobin is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia, USA.
