The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine

by Rozsika Parker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350132292
• ISBN13: 9781350132290
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

You'll never look at a sampler the same way again

If you've ever looked at samplers or thought of the ways in which needlework shaped the lives of women for centuries (mostly in the negative sense), you will enjoy this book immensely. Parker takes one of the central tasks expected of women in the 18th and 19th centuries and shows how women used needlework as an outlet to express feelings of dismay and dislike. It just goes to show you: where there's a will, there's a way.If you enjoy learning about women's lives in the past, and have either an interest or an aversion to needlework yourself, I think you will enjoy this most unusual history.