Rozsika Parker’s iconic 1984 book ’The Subversive Stitch’ on the role of embroidery in Western culture and the construction of gender/femininity, highlighting the art of sewing as an act of female resistance #womensart
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The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
chez le (ré-)éditeur
▻http://www.ibtauris.com/Books/The-arts/Art-forms/Textile-artworks/The-Subversive-Stitch-Embroidery-and-the-Making-of-the-Feminine
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.
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The Political Stitch : Voicing Resistance in a Suffrage Textile
(article de 2012)
Suffragette emprisonnée et broderie
(avec images…)▻https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1757&context=tsaconf
While on a hunger strike within the walls of Britain’s Holloway Prison in 1912, a woman recorded her experience in an embroidered handkerchief. Her deliberate stitching not only presents us with an intimate artifact that embodies individual experience but a pivotal collective moment in Western women’s history. As one of the imprisoned militants, Janie Terrero created a textile imbued with political importance. The textile, created under extenuating circumstances, engages us with her act to resist, petition and memorialize in her struggle for a political voice for herself and womankind.
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Et du coup,…
exposition à Londres pour le centenaire du droit de vote des femmes.
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