Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia
$64.88
- Paperback
264 pages
- Release Date
25 February 2021
Summary
In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women’s Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing.
Focusing on one of women’s most common daily tasks, the book examines how needl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350237940 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350237949 |
| Author: | Dr Lorinda Cramer |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 25 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 406g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 158mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
In this highly original study, readers can see anew how genteel women made and remade themselves through needlework. A compelling read with aptly chosen objects and images.
Cramer expertly combines theory with close readings of material objects to illuminate women’s crucial but often overlooked contributions to the solidification of British colonial power. * Ariel Beaujot, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, USA *
In this highly original study, readers can see anew how genteel women made and remade themselves through needlework. A compelling read with aptly chosen objects and images. * Bronwyn Labrum, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa *
Dr Lorinda Cramer
Lorinda Cramer was previously Associate Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globilisation, Deakin University, Australia, and is now Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Australian Catholic University.
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