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Queering the subversive stitch : men and the culture of needlework / Joseph McBrinn
VerfasserMcBrinn, Joseph
ErschienenLondon ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021
Umfangxxii, 231, 16 Seiten : Illustrationen
SchlagwörterNeedlework / Social aspects / Masculinity / Queer theory / Male domination (Social structure)
ISBN978-1-4725-7805-1
ISBN978-1-4725-7804-4
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Zusammenfassung
"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.
Zusammenfassung
"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"--