"Only sissies and women sew": an introduction -- Needlework and the creation of masculinities: "the prick" of patriarchy -- "Killing the angel in the house": Victorian manliness, domestic handicrafts and homosexual panic -- "The mesh canvas": amateur needlecrafts, masculinity and modernism -- Masculinity and "the politics of cloth": from the "bad boys" of postmodern art to the "the boys that sew club" of the new millennium -- Conclusion: "Men who embroider. "Queering the Subversive Stitch is the first book to unpick the construction of masculinity through an analysis of how and why men engage with needlework"-- | 
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