“Knitting is the saving of life; Adrian has taken it up too”: Needlework, Gender, and the Bloomsbury Group

McBrinn, Joseph

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“…Embroidery is perceived as a submissive, voiceless, and irrelevant female craft through a partial, patriarchal narrative that distorts gendered socio-cultural narratives [ 4 , 5 , 6 ]. The feminist movement has emerged to restore its forgotten gender-oriented history, such as its use by the suffragists in their 1910 protest [ 7 ], as well as the Bloomsbury Society’s advocacy of embroidery as a means of integrating women’s and homosexuals’ voices [ 8 ]. The connection between embroidery and the status of women is also evident in the lack of documentation of embroidery and the omission of women as creators [ 9 ].…”

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The Therapeutic Aspects of Embroidery in Art Therapy from the Perspective of Adolescent Girls in a Post-Hospitalization Boarding School

Wolk

2023

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This phenomenological qualitative study explored the experiences of adolescent girls with emotional disorders from post-hospitalization boarding schools who embroidered in an art therapy open studio group. A Youth Participatory Action Research approach and the bioecological model were used to shed light on the therapeutic process of embroidery. Through a thematic analysis of the focus groups and interviews with 13 participants, we identified five themes specifically related to embroidery: (a) control versus release/freedom; (b) calmness that comes from the repetitive action and focus; (c) the experience of being exceptional versus conventional; (d) the “stitch through time” experience, which involves a dialogue with the past, present, and future through embroidery; and (e) the overt-latent layers of consciousness. The findings suggest that embroidery has therapeutic benefits for this population and supports psychological development. This study reveals that embroidery, whose threads are intricately embedded in society and culture, and may provide a unique and meaningful activity for young people in post-hospitalization boarding schools and enables a social and cultural exploration of self and community. Limitations of this study and recommendations for further research are also discussed.

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The Therapeutic Aspects of Embroidery in Art Therapy from the Perspective of Adolescent Girls in a Post-Hospitalization Boarding School

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Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present

Elkins

2022

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Crafting Feminism develops a dynamic study of craft and art-making in modern and contemporary feminist writing. In evocative readings of literary works from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith, this book expands our sense of transartistic modernist scholarship to encompass process-oriented and medium-specific analyses of textiles, digital design, collage, photography, painting, and sculpture in literary culture. By integrating these craft practices into the book’s enlightening archive, Elkins’s theoretical argument extends a reading of craft metaphors into the material present. Crafting Feminism demonstrates how writers have engaged with handiwork across generations and have undertaken the crafting of a new modernity, one that is queer and feminist—threaded, messy, shattered, cut-up, pasted together, preserved, repaired, reflected, and spun out. An avant-garde work of scholarship, this book interweaves queer research methods and interdisciplinary rigor with a series of surprising archival discoveries. Making visible the collaborative, creative features of craft, Elkins captivates readers with generous illustrations and a series of “Techne” interchapters—interludes between longer chapters, which powerfully convey the symbiosis between feminist theory and method and detail the network of archival influences that underpin this volume’s hybrid approach. Foregrounding the work of decentering patriarchal and Eurocentric legacies of artistic authority, Elkins champions the diverse, intergenerational history of craft as a way to reposition the work of intersectional makers at the heart of literary culture. An original and compelling study, Crafting Feminism breaks new ground in modernist and visual studies, digital humanities, and feminist, queer, and critical race theories.

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Crafting Feminism From Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present

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“Knitting is the saving of life; Adrian has taken it up too”: Needlework, Gender, and the Bloomsbury Group

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The Therapeutic Aspects of Embroidery in Art Therapy from the Perspective of Adolescent Girls in a Post-Hospitalization Boarding School

The Therapeutic Aspects of Embroidery in Art Therapy from the Perspective of Adolescent Girls in a Post-Hospitalization Boarding School

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