The Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker

The Subversive Stitch by Rozsika Parker

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Rozsika Parker's re-evaluation of the reciprocal relationship between women and embroidery brought stitchery out from the private world of female domesticity into the public eye, creating a major breakthrough in art history and criticism, and fostering the emergence of today's dynamic and expanding crafts movements.

The Subversive Stitch is now available again with a new introduction that brings the book up-to-date, exploring the stitched art of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin, as well as the work of new young female and male embroiderers. Rozsika Parker uses household accounts, women's magazines, letters, novels, and the works of art themselves to trace through history how the separation from the fine arts of the craft of embroidery came to be a major force in the marginalisation of women's work. Beautifully illustrated, her book also discusses the contradictory nature of women's experience of embroidery: how it has inculcated female subservience while providing an immensely pleasurable source of creativity, forging links between women.