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Quilting - The Fabric of Everyday Life (Hardcover)
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Quilting - The Fabric of Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
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Quilting, once regarded as a traditional craft, has broken through
the barriers of history, art and commerce to become a global
phenomenon, international multi-billion dollar industry and means
of gendered cultural production. In Quilting, sociologist and
quilter Marybeth C. Stalp explores how and why women quilt.
This close ethnographic study illustrates that women's lives can be
transformed in often surprising ways by the activity and art of
quilting. Some women who quilt as a leisure pastime are too afraid
to admit to being a quilter for fear of ridicule; others boldly
identify themselves as quilters and regard it as part of their
everyday lives.
The place of quilting in women's lives affects core family and
personal identity issues such as marriage, childcare, friendship
and aging. The book's accessible and intimate portrayal of real
quilters' lives provides a fabric for the sociology, anthropology
and textile student to understand more about wider issues of
cultural production and identity that stem from this very personal
pastime.
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