The subversive stitch : embroidery and the making of the feminine / Rozsika Parker.
By: Parker, Rozsika
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : I. B. Taurisr, 2010Edition: New ed.Description: xxii, 247 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 9781848852839; 1848852835 .Subject(s): Embroidery -- History | Women in art | FemininityDDC classification: 746.44082 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.44082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 19/02/2024 | 00195392 | |
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 746.44082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00195401 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery has brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the fine arts, created a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostered the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements. "The Subversive Stitch" is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. 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.
Previous ed.: London: Women's Press, 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.
1 The Creation of Femininity -- 2 Eternalising the Feminine -- 3 Fertility, Chastity and Power -- 4 The Domestication of Embroidery -- 5 The Inculcation of Femininity -- 6 From Milkmaids to Mothers -- 7 Femininity as Feeling -- 8 A Naturally Revolutionary Art?
The Subversive Stitch is now available again with a new Introduction that brings the book up to date with exploration of the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. 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.--pub. desc.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Victoria and Albert Museum Image Credits (p. vi)
- Acknowledgements (p. viii)
- Foreword (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. xi)
- 1 The Creation of Femininity (p. 1)
- 2 Eternalising the Feminine (p. 17)
- 3 Fertility, Chastity and Power (p. 40)
- 4 The Domestication of Embroidery (p. 60)
- 5 The Inculcation of Femininity (p. 82)
- 6 From Milkmaids to Mothers (p. 110)
- 7 Femininity as Feeling (p. 147)
- 8 A Naturally Revolutionary Art? (p. 189)
- Notes (p. 216)
- Bibliography (p. 233)
- Glossary (p. 240)
- Index (p. 242)