Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Refining Work -- 1 Needlework and Creativity in Representations of the Seamstress -- 2 'A Suitable Employment for Women': The Woman Artist and the Principle of Compatibi…
Patricia Zakreski uses the structure of the gender borderland to describe women's relationship to work. She shows how the notion of work for women was not only refined by reference to the domestic ideal, but also came to be seen as an experience with intrinsic refining qualities…
Patricia Zakreski uses the structure of the gender borderland to describe women's relationship to work. She shows how the notion of work for women was not only refined by reference to the domestic ideal, but also came to be seen as an experience with intrinsic refining qualities…
''Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves a…
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. How women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the domestic handicraft movements, music, d…
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between domestic and fine art production, they crafted subjectivities for themselves as …
Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. How women faced the pragmatics of their own creative labour as they pursued vocations, trades and professions in the domestic handicraft movements, music, d…