Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950

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Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950

edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin

Routledge, 2016

  • : paperback

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"First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing"--T.p.verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-287) and index

Contents of Works

  • Introduction : Threading women / Maureen Daly Goggin
  • 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
  • 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 quiltmaking : history, traditions, and studies / Marsha MacDowell
  • Mundillo and identity : the revival and transformation of handmade lace in Puerto Rico / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
  • Invisible seamstresses : feminine works in Venetian convents from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century / Isabella Campagnol
  • Textile mills and the political economy of domestic womanhood in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The silent partner / Laura A. Smith
  • Recovering American women industrial designers : Florence Cory as a nineteenth-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

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