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slimjymshorts 's review for:
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
by Rozsika Parker
Powerful and moving. I need to reflect more on how 21st century embroidery evokes, subverts, and evolved from this rich history. I learned embroidery from Tik Tok - an entire anthology could be written on embroidery through globalization and technology!
Deeply disappointed there wasn't multi-generational history of Slavic embroidery. Instead, Parker reduces and oversimplified Russian embroidery in the context of this Anglo-centric history. I'm certain the history of Slavic and Balkan embroidery is equally, if not more relevant to Russian socialist embroidery - especially during the anti-Western campaigns! Applying a Western analysis of gender is inherently flawed - especially since class consciousness manifested as women's involvement in socialist revolution and political participation! Many of the domestic-professional gender divisions persisted, but I would've appreciated more insight here.
Also very disappointed that Parker mentioned but didn't discuss or show African embroidery.
Deeply disappointed there wasn't multi-generational history of Slavic embroidery. Instead, Parker reduces and oversimplified Russian embroidery in the context of this Anglo-centric history. I'm certain the history of Slavic and Balkan embroidery is equally, if not more relevant to Russian socialist embroidery - especially during the anti-Western campaigns! Applying a Western analysis of gender is inherently flawed - especially since class consciousness manifested as women's involvement in socialist revolution and political participation! Many of the domestic-professional gender divisions persisted, but I would've appreciated more insight here.
Also very disappointed that Parker mentioned but didn't discuss or show African embroidery.