Contemporary pieces of embroidery showing words made of human hair open up reflections upon how women artists challenge the traditional partition between the needle (for women) and the pen (for men). The article offers a synthesis on the historical construction of this gendered assignaion of needlework to women, from Renaissance to the early twentieth century. The idea of physical and moral coercion appears in the feminine history of needlework as well as in the history of the access of young women to reading and writing. Finally, if embroidery was for a long time excluded from metaphorical descriptions of literature, unlike weaving, the article ends up showing how the crossroads between writing and embroidery can be seen as a part of women...
Taking as a starting point the association between embroidery and language conveyed by the Greek myt...
Using contemporary embroidered artwork as a bellwether for changing social relationships, this paper...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-348).“Unravelling a Pastime: Needlework and Needlew...
The feminization of needlework under patriarchal systems of power and oppression has reinforced both...
Within the realm of feminist scholarship of history, it has been said that human stories can be tol...
This thesis attends to the appearance of needlework within early eighteenth-century British women\u2...
Many women in North America and the British Isles in the eighteenth century and into the first half ...
This thesis addresses needlework between 1920 and 1970 as a window into women’s broader experiences,...
When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of ...
Many women in North America and the British Isles in the eighteenth century and into the first half ...
The feminization of needlework under patriarchal systems of power and oppression has reinforced both...
This paper examines contemporary needlework on vintage handkerchiefs, identifying a new genre of fem...
Picture a woman working diligently in solitude on a task that requires great patience and skill to p...
Women's hair at the turn of the twentieth century (1850s-1920s) can be read as a visual indicator of...
The Language of Flowers, a dictionary of symbolic meanings assigned to individual flowers, was estab...
Taking as a starting point the association between embroidery and language conveyed by the Greek myt...
Using contemporary embroidered artwork as a bellwether for changing social relationships, this paper...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-348).“Unravelling a Pastime: Needlework and Needlew...
The feminization of needlework under patriarchal systems of power and oppression has reinforced both...
Within the realm of feminist scholarship of history, it has been said that human stories can be tol...
This thesis attends to the appearance of needlework within early eighteenth-century British women\u2...
Many women in North America and the British Isles in the eighteenth century and into the first half ...
This thesis addresses needlework between 1920 and 1970 as a window into women’s broader experiences,...
When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of ...
Many women in North America and the British Isles in the eighteenth century and into the first half ...
The feminization of needlework under patriarchal systems of power and oppression has reinforced both...
This paper examines contemporary needlework on vintage handkerchiefs, identifying a new genre of fem...
Picture a woman working diligently in solitude on a task that requires great patience and skill to p...
Women's hair at the turn of the twentieth century (1850s-1920s) can be read as a visual indicator of...
The Language of Flowers, a dictionary of symbolic meanings assigned to individual flowers, was estab...
Taking as a starting point the association between embroidery and language conveyed by the Greek myt...
Using contemporary embroidered artwork as a bellwether for changing social relationships, this paper...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [311]-348).“Unravelling a Pastime: Needlework and Needlew...