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KNITTING & IDENTITY
 
KNITTING & IDENTITY
³The art of embroidery has been themeans of educating women into thefeminine ideal, and of proving that theyhave attained it, but it has also provided aweapon of resistance to the constraints of femininity.´Foreword
The Subversive Stitch
byRozsika Parker 
 
KNITTING & IDENTITY
³Paradoxically, while embroidery wasemployed to inculcate femininity inwomen, it also enabled them to negotiatethe constraints of femininity
The Subversive Stitch
by Rozsika Parker page 11
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Let´s celebrate the fact of being a woman!

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