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Product details:
- Publisher Berg Publishers
- Date of Publication 1 December 2007
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781845206550
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages168 pages
- Size 244x172x14 mm
- Weight 308 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 b&w illustrations, biblio, index 0
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Long description:
Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means of gendered cultural production. In Quilting, sociologist and quilter Marybeth C. Stalp explores how and why women quilt.This close ethnographic study illustrates that women's lives can be transformed in often surprising ways by the activity and art of quilting. Some women who quilt as a leisure pastime are too afraid to admit to being a quilter for fear of ridicule; others boldly identify themselves as quilters and regard it as part of their everyday lives.The place of quilting in women's lives affects core family and personal identity issues such as marriage, childcare, friendship and aging. The book's accessible and intimate portrayal of real quilters' lives provides a fabric for the sociology, anthropology and textile student to understand more about wider issues of cultural production and identity that stem from this very personal pastime.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter I: Introduction: Why Quilting?
Why Quilts Matter... The (Recent) Global Quilting Phenomenon
What is a Quilt, Anyway?
Cultural Production in the Economic Sphere
The Sociology of Culture and the Culture of Non-Economic Cultural Production
Chapter II: Tripping through the Tulips: Doing Research Close to Home
Using Feminist Methods to Study Contemporary U.S. Quilters
Local Knowledge and Grounded Theory
Methods and Data
When Quilting is Enough: Immediate Commonalities through Quilting
Piecing Together My Personal and Professional Selves
Gendered Assumptions about Quilting and Fieldwork
How Long Did it Take You to Make That Quilt?
How Many Quilts Have You Made?
Revealing My Quilting and My Self
When Quilting is Not Enough: Tripping through the Tulips of an Academic Career
Chapter III: It's Not Just for Grannies Anymore: Learning to Quilt at Midlife
Learning to Quilt as an Adult, and Not on your Mother's Knee
Quilting Heritage
The Skipped Generation of Quilters
New Quilters
Midlife Women and Quilting
Subjective Careers
Learning to Quilt at Midlife
Becoming a Self-Identified Quilter
Affirming a Subjective Career in Quilting
Quilting as Identity Work
Extending the Self: Quilts as Finished Products
Chapter IV: The Guilty Pleasures of the Fabric StashQuilting and Fabric Collecting
Starting a Fabric Collection
Stashing Fabric
The Stigmatized Stash and Hiding One's Quilting Identity
Quilters' Families as Greedy Institutions
Can The Fabric Stash Ever Come Out of the Closet?
Chapter V: Quilt Rhymes with Guilt: Finding the Time & Space to Quilt
Quilting Seriously
Not Enough Time
Not Enough Space
Not Having Space
Rhymes with Guilt: Finding the Time to Quilt
Finally! Negotiating a Room of One's Own
From a Room of One's Own to a Life of One's Own?
Chapter VI: Coming out of the Closet: Quilting is for Self and for Others
Quilting as Carework for Self
Quilting as Carework for Others
Bookmarking Life Through Quilting
Self, Space and Sanity
Chapter VII: Piecing it All Together
What's So Important About Quilting?
Leisure, Carework and the Family
Developing a Midlife Identity through Quilting
Quilting and Other Creative Processes and Products
Quilting as Gendered Non-Economic Cultural Production
