Subtitle: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
Author: Parker, Rozsika
Year: 2019
ISBN: 9781350132290
Pages: 336
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publisher's city: London
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The Subversive Stitch
€27.50
Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women’s magazines, letters, novels and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation of the craft of embroidery from the fine arts came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women’s work. Beautifully illustrated, her book also discusses the contradictory nature of women’s experience of embroidery: how it has inculcated female subservience while providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging links between women.
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