Knitting as a remedy
Women’s Everyday Creativity in Response to Hopelessness and Despair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7739641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marta Kargól (0000-0002-2613-5953, Independent Scholar, The Hague, The Netherlands, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 821-839 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-2386 • E-ISSN: 1466-4348 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09502386.2021.2011933 |
| OpenAlex | W4200033771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 34 |
In her 2008 novel The Knitting Circle, American writer Ann Hood identifies knitting as a form of prayer, with every stitch connecting her to her deceased daughter. In 2016, a Rotterdam-based knitting icon, Loes Veenstra, passed away. For many years, Veenstra knitted hundreds of jumpers that were not intended to be worn. She knitted solely to fight her smoking addiction. In 2010, hundreds of Peruvian women knitted together in a square in Ayacucho to commemorate their missing relatives, whose fate had remained unknown since the civil war in the 1980s and 1990s. The scarf they created served as a symbolic grave because these women knew that their relatives would probably never get a real one. The written and spoken testimonies of these women as well as the knitted objects reveal the significance of knitting as a remedy. This creative endeavour practiced in daily life becomes a remedy when it is the only activity that women want or are able to undertake while experiencing grief, trauma or addiction. Knitting is a cure for women who have no other recourse to action within their social or cultural circumstances. These case studies illustrate how being creative (as a woman) in daily life can be beneficial in difficult times
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Creativity · Everyday life · Grief · Icon · Political science · Prayer · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |