Women, Craft and Protest: Yesterday and Today

Denise Rall, Moya Costello

Abstract


This article surveys the use of their craft skills by women since c.1840 to register protest and to alert the world to massive and condoned harassment. While the focus is particularly on the United Kingdom and the United States there are many telling comments on this style of successful protest as in India, or Australia. An appraisal is made of the links between head and hand, as well as the most powerful—and informative—‘passive resistance.


Keywords


Women;

Full Text:

PDF

References


Ferris, Monica, Blackwork (New York: Berkley True Crime, 2010).

Ferris, Monica, Crewel Yule (New York: Berkley True Crime, 2005).

Ferris, Monica, Knitting Bones (New York: Berkley True Crime, 2008).

Ferris, Monica, Sew Far, So Good (New York: Berkley True Crime, 2009).

Ferris, Monica, Sins and Needles (New York: Berkley True Crime, 2006).

Jacobs, Kate, Knit Two (New York: Berkley Trade, 2009).

Jacobs, Kate, The Friday Night Knitting Club (London: Penguin, 2007).

Kruger, Mary, Died in the Wool (New York: Pocket Books, 2005).

Kruger, Mary, Knit Fast Die Young (New York: Pocket Books, 2007).

Sefton, Maggie, A Deadly Yarn (New York: Berkley True Crime, 2006).

Aris, Sharon, It’s My Party and I’ll Knit if I Want To! (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2003).

Bartlett, Anne, Knitting (London: Penguin Books, 2005).

Christianson, Barbara. Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time (New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2006).

Hosegood, Betsy, Not Tonight Darling, I’m Knitting (David and Charles, 2006).

Lydon, Susan Gordon, The Knitting Sutra: Craft as a Spiritual Practice (New York: HarperOne, 1998).

Miller, F.P., A.F. Vandome, and J. McBrewster (Eds) Craftivism (Alphascript Publishing, 2010).

Murphy, Bernadette, Zen and the Art of Knitting (Avon, MA: Adams Media, 2002).

Pearl-McPhee, Stephanie, Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005).

Greer, Betsy, Knitting for Good!: A Guide to Creating Personal, Social, and Political Change—Stitch by Stitch (Boston, MA: Trumpeter Books, 2008).

Seiff, Joanne, Knit Green: 20 Projects and Ideas for Sustainability (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, 2009).

Stoller, Debbie, Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker (New York: Workman Publishing, 2006).

Stoller, Debbie, Stitch 'n Bitch Nation (New York: Workman Publishing, 2004).

Stoller, Debbie, Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook, New York: Workman Publishing, 2003).

Wasinger, Susan, Eco Craft, (New York, London: Lark Books, 2009).

White, Betz, Sewing Green, (New York: Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2009).


Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Bookmark and Share


Copyright (c) 2010