With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories pendants Ginger Garner

Ginger Garner

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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories pendants Ginger GarnerKnitting, 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