Stitching the Self

List of Figures
List of Plates
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stitching the self ...
Johanna Amos and Lisa Binkley

Part I: Emerging identity: Reconsidering the narratives of the needle
1 The identity of an embroidering woman: The needle arts in Brussels, Belgium, 1850-1914
Wendy Wiertz

2 "Experiments in silk and gold work afterwards to bloom": The embroidering of Jane Burden Morris
Johanna Amos

3 Becoming the boss of your knitting: Elizabeth Zimmermann and the emergence of critical knitting
M. Lilly Marsh

4 "Knitting is the saving of life; Adrian has taken it up too": Needlework, gender and the Bloomsbury group
Joseph McBrinn

Part II: Elaborating identity: Expressing ideology, crafting community
5 Whig's Defeat: Stitching settler culture, politics, and identity
Lisa Binkley

6 "From Prison to Citizenship," 1910: The making and display of a suffragist banner
Janice Helland

7 Our Lady of the Snows: Settlement, empire, and "the children of Canada" in the needlework of Mary Seton Watts (1848-1938)
Elaine Cheasley Paterson

Part III: Recovering Identity: Locating the self through needlework
8 "Je me declare Dieu-Mère, Femme Créateur": Johanna Wintsch's needlework at the Swiss psychiatric asylums Burghölzli and Rheinau, 1922-25
Sabine Wieber

9 Hybrid language: The interstitial stitches of Anna Torma's embroideries
Anne Koval

10 Suturing my soul: In pursuit of the Broderie de Bayeux
Janet Catherine Berlo

Index