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Informationen zum Autor Katja May Klappentext Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary. Using transnational, contemporary case studies - such as the Social Justice Sewing Academy, fictionalised Bangladeshi garment workers as well as the famous Pussyhat Project - Katja May suggests a new approach to the interpretation of textile crafts as an affective social practice, and draws on under-represented issues of race.May connects her study to broader material and social conditions of inequality, allowing for a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the role of needlework in feminist political activism. This broader look at how textile crafts function in the realms of politics and activism conceptualizes quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting as routine activities invested with emotions and entangled with material and social conditions as well as political potential. Vorwort A unique interdisciplinary and transnational framework for the study of needlework and its role as an affective social practice. Zusammenfassung Needlework, Affect and Social Transformation offers an original framework for moving beyond binary discourses that class practices of needlework as either feminist or reactionary. Using transnational, contemporary case studies – such as the Social Justice Sewing Academy, fictionalised Bangladeshi garment workers as well as the famous Pussyhat Project – Katja May suggests a new approach to the interpretation of textile crafts as an affective social practice, and draws on under-represented issues of race.May connects her study to broader material and social conditions of inequality, allowing for a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the role of needlework in feminist political activism. This broader look at how textile crafts function in the realms of politics and activism conceptualizes quilting, dressmaking, embroidery and knitting as routine activities invested with emotions and entangled with material and social conditions as well as political potential. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Affective Politics of Needlework1. Quilting Black Resistance: Slavery’s Afterlives, Creativity and Social Justice2. Sewing Desire: Homework, Gendered Agency and Bangladeshi Diaspora3. Stitching Transnational Solidarity: Textile Crafts and Cross-Cultural Encounters4. Knitting Feminist Politics: Craftivism and Affective TensionCoda : Un-making WhitenessNotesBibliographyAppendix 1Index...
