Crafting Dissent : Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats /: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hinda Mandell.
• Editors: Mandell, Hinda
• Contents: Foreword; ; Jayna Zweiman; ; Introduction Chapter 1: Yarn, Thread, Scissors, Fabric: A Crafter’s Tool Kit for Mending Democracy as Engaged Citizens; Hinda Mandell; ; Part 1: Crafting Histories; ; Chapter 2: Craftivism from Philomena to the Pussyhat; Sandra Markus; ; Chapter 3: Weaving the Way Toward Liberty: John Singleton Copley’s Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mifflin (Sarah Morris); Elizabeth S. Hawley; ; Chapter 4: Spinning, Sewing, and Soliciting for the American Revolution; Laura Elizabeth Sapelly; ; Chapter 5: The Anti-Craft Activism of Enslaved Americans: Conspicuous Consumption as Resistance; Katie Knowles; ; Chapter 6: The Underground Railroad Quilt Code Myth and the Culture of Crafted Experience Felicity Lufkin; ; Chapter 7: Frederick and Anna Douglass’s Parking Lot: Public Art’s Role in Combatting Historical Erasure and Urban Renewal; Hinda Mandell; ; Chapter 8: Stitching Dissent: From the Suffragists to Pussyhat Politics; Anne Bruder; ; Chapter 9: How Homespun Cotton Cloth Became the Fabric of Indian Political Life; Rekha Sharma and Gargi Bhaduri; ; Chapter 10: “It’s Getting Bitchy in Knitting Circles”: The History of the Stitch ‘n Bitch Movement and Internalized Misogyny; Erika Jackson; ; Part 2: Politics of Craft; ; Chapter 11: The Entanglement of Consumption, Commerce and Craft Activism; Hannah Bush; ; Chapter 12: How to Smash the Patriarchy: A Guide for Fat Old Ladies and Their Friends; A graphic essay by Donna Druchunas; ; ; ; Chapter 13: Craftivism as DIY Citizenship; Tal Fitzpatrick; ; Chapter 14: A Tale of Two Scarves; Máire O Sullivan, Shona Bettany and Toni Eagar; ; Chapter 15: ‘Consent Trumps Everything <span style="font-style:italic;">:’ Sexual Assault Discourse, Election Craftivism and the Clothesline Art Project; Jill Swiencicki and Shannon DeHoff; ; Chapter 16: Curating Craftivism and Rethinking our Collections; Shirley Wajda and Mary Worrall; ; Part 3: Crafting Cultural Conversations; ; Chapter 17: Gentle Doesn’t Mean Passive: The Strength of Temperate Activism in Breaking Down Corporate Barriers; Sarah Corbett; ; Chapter 18: It was Always Your Grandmother’s Craft, and That’s Just Perfect; Betsy Greer; ; Chapter 19: Mending the World; Sarah Kuhn; ; Chapter 20: Crafting Change Through Pliable Texture: Craft Activism for Community-Based Art Therapy; Lauren Leone; ; Chapter 21: In Stitches: Crafting, Crime, Harm and Justice; Alyce McGovern and Elaine Fishwick; ; Chapter 22: Crafting the Vulva Quilt; Michelle Napoli and Michaela Kirby; ; Chapter 23: Craft as a Pedagogy of Hope; Suzanne Schmidt; ; Chapter 24: Reshaping the Narrative around People of Color and Craftivism; Diane Ivey; ; Afterword: The Sisterhood of the Trump/Putin Cross-Stitch; Alison Rowley and Althea Thompson; ; About the Editor and the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages), (19 illustrations)
• Subjects: Art: Museum Studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781538118405; 1538118408
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.