Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation
The Everyday Textures of Feminist Activism
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 29 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350283626
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 700
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Long description:
Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary. Using transnational, contemporary case studies - such as the Social Justice Sewing Academy, fictionalised Bangladeshi garment workers as well as the famous Pussyhat Project - Katja May suggests a new approach to the interpretation of textile crafts as an affective social practice, and draws on under-represented issues of race.
May connects her study to broader material and social conditions of inequality, allowing for a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the role of needlework in feminist political activism. This broader look at how textile crafts function in the realms of politics and activism conceptualizes quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting as routine activities invested with emotions and entangled with material and social conditions as well as political potential.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Affective Politics of Needlework
1. Quilting Black Resistance: Slavery's Afterlives, Creativity and Social Justice
2. Sewing Desire: Homework, Gendered Agency and Bangladeshi Diaspora
3. Stitching Transnational Solidarity: Textile Crafts and Cross-Cultural Encounters
4. Knitting Feminist Politics: Craftivism and Affective Tension
Coda : Un-making Whiteness
Notes
Bibliography
Appendix 1
Index
