Women and the material culture of needlework and textiles, 1750-1950

Introduction : Threading women / Maureen Daly Goggin -- The needle as the pen : intentionality, needlework, and the production of alternate discourses of power / Heather Pristash, Inez Schaechterle, and Sue Carter Wood -- Stitching a life in "Pen of steele and silken inke" : Elizabeth Parker's circa 1830 sampler / Maureen Daly Goggin -- "Tattered to pieces" : Amy Fiske's sampler and the changing roles of women in antebellum New England / Aimee E. Newell -- "I dearly loved that machine" : women and the objects of home sewing in the 1940s / Marcia McLean -- Turn-of-the-century quilts : embodied objects in a web of relationships / Beverly Gordon and Laurel Horton -- Crazy quilts and controlled lives : consumer culture and the meaning of women's domestic work in the American Far West / Cynthia Culver Prescott -- Native quiltmaking : history, traditions, and studies / Marsha MacDowell -- Mundillo and identity : the revival and transformation of handmade lace in Puerto Rico / Ellen Fernandez-Sacco -- Invisible seamstresses : feminine works in Venetian convents from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century / Isabella Campagnol -- Textile mills and the political economy of domestic womanhood in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' The silent partner / Laura A. Smith -- Recovering American women industrial designers : Florence Cory as a nineteenth-century case study / Sarah Johnson -- Hooking magic : transforming women's handicraft into art / Cynthia Fowler -- American women and wartime hand knitting, 1750-1950 / Susan M. Strawn.