Queering the subversive stitch : men and the culture of needlework - McBrinn, Joseph (London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021)
"Queering the Subversive Stitch is the first book to unpick the construction of masculinity through an analysis of how and why men engage with needlework"--
"Only sissies and women sew": an introduction -- Needlework and the creation of masculinities: "the prick" of patriarchy -- "Killing the angel in the house": Victorian manliness, domestic handicrafts and homosexual panic -- "The mesh canvas": amateur needlecrafts, masculinity and modernism -- Masculinity and "the politics of cloth": from the "bad boys" of postmodern art to the "the boys that sew club" of the new millennium -- Conclusion: "Men who embroider.
Index en bibl.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Male domination (Social structure).; Masculinity; Needlework -- Social aspects; Queer theory