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Item Number: 103960
Title: Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750–1950
Author: Daly Goggin, Maureen (ed)
Price: $99.95
ISBN: 9780754665380
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Available December 2009
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009. 24cm., hardcvoer, 312pp., 54 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction: threading women, Maureen Daly Goggin; Identity, Embroidery, and Sewing: The needle as the pen: intentionality, needlework, and the production of alternate discourses of power, Heather Pristash, Inez Schaechterle and Sue Carter Wood; Stitching a life in ''pen of steele and silken inke'': Elizabeth Parker''s circa 1830 sampler, Maureen Daly Goggin; ''Tattered to pieces'': Amy Fiske''s sampler and the changing roles of women in antebellum New England, Aimee E. Newell; ''I dearly loved that machine'': women and the objects of home sewing in the 1940s, Marcia McLean. Cultural Identity, Piecing, Quilting, and Lace Making: Turn-of-the-century quilts: embodied objects in a web of relationships, Beverly Gordon and Laurel Horton; Crazy quilts and controlled lives: consumer culture and the meaning of women''s domestic work in the American Far West, Cynthia Culver Prescott; Native quilting: history, traditions, and studies, Marsha MacDowell; Mundillo and identity: the revival and transformation of handmade lace in Puerto Rico, Ellen Fernandez-Sacco; Invisible seamstresses: needlework in Venetian convents from the 15th to the 18th century, Isabella Campagnol. Politics and Design in Yarn and Thread: Textiles and the political economy of domestic womanhood in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps''s The Silent Partner, Laura A. Smith; Recovering American women industrial designers: Florence Cory as a 19th-century case study, Sarah Johnson; Hooking magic: transforming women''s handicraft into Art, Cynthia Fowler; American women and wartime hand knitting, 1750–1950, Susan M. Strawn; Bibliography; Index.
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