Crafting Dissent
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5610-0 (ISBN)
But there was nothing new about women crafting as a means of dissent.
Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats is the first book that demonstrates how craft, typically involving the manipulation of yarn, thread and fabric, has also been used as a subversive tool throughout history and up to the present day, to push back against government policy and social norms that crafters perceive to be harmful to them, their bodies, their families, their ideals relating to equality and human rights, and their aspirations. At the heart of the book is an exploration for how craft is used by citizens to engage with the rhetoric and policy shaping their country’s public sphere.
The book is divided into three sections: "Crafting Histories," Politics of Craft," and "Crafting Cultural Conversations."
Three features make this a unique contribution to the field of craft activism and history:
The inclusion of diverse contributors from a global perspective (including from England, Ireland, India, New Zealand, Australia)
Essay formats including photo essays, personal essays and scholarly investigations
The variety of professional backgrounds among the book’s contributors, including academics, museum curators, art therapists, small business owners, provocateurs, artists and makers.
This book explains that while handicraft and craft-motivated activism may appear to be all the rage and “of the moment,” a long thread reveals its roots as far back as the founding of American Democracy, and at key turning points throughout the history of nations throughout the world.
Hinda Mandell is associate professor in the School of Communication at RIT in New York, and is editor of Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); cocurator and coeditor of Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts and Activism; a coeditor of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election; the author of Sex Scandals, Gender and Power in Contemporary American Politics and coeditor of Scandal in a Digital Age. Mandell’s website is omghinda.com, and she’s on Twitter: @hindamandell and @crochetactivism, and Instagram: @crochetactivism. Mandell is passionate about organizing crowd-created yarn installations in public spaces that are connected to the history of a region's social-reform movements.
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:’ 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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | American Association for State and Local History |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-5610-5 / 1538156105 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-5610-0 / 9781538156100 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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