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Feb 17, 2018 · Scholar Elaine Freedgood tells the story of how, in the face of encroaching industrialism, handmade lace enjoyed a frilly revival—and masked fears about the commodification of female labor. Freedgood describes a lace war of sorts waged between machines and people. In 1768, the first lace machine was invented, and predictably enough automation ...
Needle lace is like embroidery in the air. * Later, bobbin lace. Mathematical, precise. Each bobbin a wooden handle like a flower bulb sending up a stalk ending in a spool instead of petals. Lace was brought to Zurich from Italy in about 1536. The whole history of lace-making is women. Men sold it and made the profit. *
The whole history of lace-making is women. Men sold it and made the profit. * 496b Dana Sonnenschein Afloat on a round, midnight-blue velvet pillow, a half-finished lace collar, one side a ring of flowers radiating thread to a couple dozen bobbins around the rim, the other side dots and dashes on sky-blue paper— An old lace-maker has died ...
Jan 1, 2001 · That aside, Lace is very much a product of its time, in terms of content as much as in terms of style. There's a very good article in the Guardian about how it's actually quite feminist, which basically sums up a lot of the reasons I enjoyed it. I really recommend the article, if you have ten minutes.
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Feb 13, 2017 · The first female artistic director of Dior was born and bred a feminist through the ... the Mulleavys sent models down the runway in honeycomb-lace dresses strewn with flower appliqués and ...
Aug 9, 2014 · Biography. Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist-patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a Professor of Sociology at Fachhochschule in Cologne, Germany, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism.
A History of Lace; The Great Chain of Being Download; XML; Teaching Online: Issues of Equity and Access in Writing-centric Formats Download; XML; Speculative Writing, Art, and World-Making in the Wake of Octavia E. Butler as Feminist Theory Download; XML; Notes on Contributors Download; XML; Back Matter Download; XML
