Articulating the threatened suffragette body
Suffragette embroidered cloths worked in Holloway Prison, 1911-1912
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5151086 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Denise Jones (University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 970-999 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2020.1745403 |
| OpenAlex | W3014080241 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In public archives there are a number of hand-embroidered cloths worked by suffragettes incarcerated in Holloway Prison between 1911 and 1912. Denied political status, some of the embroiderers used the hunger strike as a political tool and were forcibly fed. In this paper the embroideries are reframed as material and discursive evidence of suffragette prison experiences. The material narratives of the embroidered cloths are traced, drawing on a dialogue between critical theory, material object enquiry, practice as research and the work of contemporary textile practitioners. Embroidering by suffragettes is explored as an embodied and situated ‘thread act’ that materialised the making of networks, the need for protection of the body and mind, the powers and dangers of boundary crossing, and proto-political thinking
Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Prison · Situated · Sociology · Visual arts · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |