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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories by Nicole Nehrig is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology to our current moment.Knitting, sewing, embroidery, quilting—throughout history, these and other forms of textile work have often been dismissed as merely "women's work" and attached to ideas of domesticity and obedience. Yet, as psychologist and avid knitter Nicole Nehrig wonderfully explores in this captivating book, textile work has often been a way for women to exercise power. When their voices were silenced and other avenues were closed off to them, women used the tools they had—often a needle and thread—to seek freedom within the restrictive societies they lived in.Spanning continents and centuries, With Her Own Hands brings together remarkable stories of women who have used textiles as a means of liberation, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls...

Who reads With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories?

Author

Nicole Nehrig

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2025

Language

EN

ISBN

9781324074854

Category

nonfiction