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Threads of Life

Author : Clare Hunter
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 168335771X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Life written by Clare Hunter and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.

Threads of Life

Author : Clare Hunter
Publisher : Sceptre
ISBN 13 : 1473687942
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Life written by Clare Hunter and published by Sceptre. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** **WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE MONTH** 'An astonishing feat' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times 'An inspiring and moving sideways look at history' Eithne Farry, Sunday Express An eloquent blend of history and memoir, Threads of Life is an evocative and moving book about the need we all have to tell our story. From political propaganda in medieval France to secret treason in Tudor England, from the mothers of the desaparecidos in Argentina to First World War soldiers with PTSD, from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland, Threads of Life is a global chronicle of identity, protest, memory and politics. Banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator Clare Hunter chronicles the stories of the men and women, over centuries and across continents, who have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. 'A beautifully considered book... Clare Hunter has managed to mix the personal with the political with moving results.' TRACY CHEVALIER

Threads of Life

Author : Richard Freadman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226261423
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Life written by Richard Freadman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many autobiographers share profound questions about human life with their readers—questions like: To what extent was my life imposed on me? To what extent did I bring it about through particular choices and actions, through the activity of my own will? Indeed, the issue of the will is central to autobiographical writing, and some of the greatest autobiographies give extended consideration to the will—its nature; its powers; its limitations; the forms of freedom, constraint, and expression it finds in various cultures; its role in particular human lives. In this new study, unprecedented in subject and scope, Richard Freadman offers the first sustained account of how changing theological, philosophical, and psychological accounts of the human will have been reflected in the writing of autobiography, and of how autobiography in its turn has helped shape various understandings of the will. Early chapters trace narrative representations of the will from antiquity (the Greeks and Augustine) to postmodernism (Derrida and Barthes), with particular emphasis on late modernity's culture of the will. Later chapters then present detailed and powerfully original readings of autobiographical texts by Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, B. F. Skinner, Ernest Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir, Arthur Koestler, Stephen Spender, and Diana Trilling. Freadman's interdisciplinary approach to autobiography and the will includes a theoretical defense of the view that autobiographers are, in varying degrees, agents in their own texts. Threads of Life argues that late modernity has inherited deeply conflicted attitudes to the will. Freadman suggests that these attitudes, now deeply embedded in contemporary cultural discourse, need reexamining. In this, he contends, 'reflective autobiography' has an important part to play.

Weaving the Threads of Life

Author : Renaat Devisch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226143620
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book Weaving the Threads of Life written by Renaat Devisch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.

Threads from the Web of Life

Author : Stephen Daubert
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826515094
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Threads from the Web of Life written by Stephen Daubert and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative, science-grounded stories about nature for the curious and imaginative of all ages.

Threads

Author : Julia Blackburn
Publisher : Arrow
ISBN 13 : 9780099582199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Threads written by Julia Blackburn and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017 John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill. For the rest of his life he kept moving in and out of what was described as 'a stuporous state'. In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea and boats and the coastline seen from the sea, and later, when he was too ill to stand and paint, he turned to embroidery, which he could do lying in bed. His embroideries were also the sea, including his masterpiece, a huge embroidery of The Evacuation of Dunkirk. Very few facts about Craske are known, and only a few scattered photographs have survived, together with accounts by the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner and her lover Valentine Ackland, who discovered Craske in 1937. So - as with all her books - Julia Blackburn's account of his life is far from a conventional biography. Instead it is a quest which takes her in many strange directions - to fishermen's cottages in Sheringham, a grand hotel fallen on hard times in Great Yarmouth and to the isolated Watch House far out in the Blakeney estuary; to Cromer and the bizarre story of Einstein's stay there, guarded by dashing young women in jodhpurs with shotguns. Threads is a book about life and death and the strange country between the two where John Craske seemed to live. It is also about life after death, as Julia's beloved husband Herman, a vivid presence in the early pages of the book, dies before it is finished. In a gentle meditation on art and fame; on the nature of time and the fact of mortality; and illustrated with Craske's paintings and embroideries, Threads shows, yet again, that Julia Blackburn can conjure a magic that is spellbinding and utterly her own.

Threads of My Life

Author : Hilaria Supa Huamán
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Threads of My Life written by Hilaria Supa Huamán and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She loves life in spite of everything. Conceived as the result of a rape, she herself was raped at the age of 14. Her name is Hilaria Supa Huamán. She is 47 years old and self-educated. She has lived in Lima, the capital of Peru. She now lives in Huallaccocha, in Cuzco. She campaigns for agriculture and for the women of the countryside. For more than 20 years, she has been dedicated to organizing women and preserving the ancient wisdom and culture of the Andes. For the last six years, she has also been working in search of justice for women who were forcibly sterilized.--1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize

Threads of Light

Author : Patrick Dowdey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Light written by Patrick Dowdey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaboration between the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute and Robert Glenn Ketchum. Photographs by Ketchum were recreated as pieces of embroidery by SERI.

Threads of Hope

Author : Andrea Boeshaar
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1616386371
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Hope written by Andrea Boeshaar and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2012-02-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristin Eikaas has her hopes set on a new life in America. The year is 1848, and Kristin Eikaas has traveled from Norway to Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. But when she arrives, she finds one disappointment after another. Worse, her superstitious uncle now believes that his neighbor’s Oneida Indian wife has put a curse on Kristin. Everyone knows the Sundbergs put spells on people... Everyone except Kristin. Her run-ins with Sam Sundberg only prove that he is a good man from a Christian family. But when her uncle discovers she’s been associating with Sam, his temper flares. To escape his wrath, Kristin gratefully accepts a job as the Sundbergs’ house girl, finding solace at the family’s spinning wheel. In the time Sam and Kristin spend together, their friendship develops into much more, and Sam prays about a match between them. But opposition threatens to derail their newfound love. Will they have the courage to stand up for what is right--even against their own families?

Wear and Tear

Author : Tracy Tynan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501123688
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Wear and Tear written by Tracy Tynan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The memoirs of a celebrity costume designer describe her upbringing in the fashionable celebrity circles of her literary parents, her family's artistic but traumatizing approaches to shopping and how the fashion-savvy perspectives of her early years shaped her relationships and career, "--NoveList.

Threads of Love

Author : Andrea Boeshaar
Publisher : Charisma Media
ISBN 13 : 1621362396
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Love written by Andrea Boeshaar and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2013 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabric of Time, Book Three. Emily Sundberg has her life all planned--a respectable job as a teacher and a suitable husband. But does God have a better plan for her?

Threads of Identity

Author : Widad Kawar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789963610426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Threads of Identity written by Widad Kawar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Palestinian women of the 20th century told through aspects of popular heritage, focusing on traditional dresses but also including textiles and rug weaving, rural and urban customs, cuisine, and festivities.

The Thread of Life

Author : John Cowdery Kendrew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Thread of Life written by John Cowdery Kendrew and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pocket

Author : Barbara Burman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300253745
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Pocket written by Barbara Burman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 “A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.”—Roberta Smith’s “Top Art Books of 2019,” The New York Times This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women’s everyday lives—from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen—and to explore their consumption practices, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. A wealth of evidence reveals unexpected facets of the past, bringing women’s stories into intimate focus. “What particularly interests Burman and Fennetaux is the way in which women of all classes have historically used these tie-on pockets as a supplementary body part to help them negotiate their way through a world that was not built to suit them.”—Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian “A brilliant book.”—Ulinka Rublack, Times Literary Supplement

Peter Brook: Threads Of Time

Author : Peter Brook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350058424
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Peter Brook: Threads Of Time written by Peter Brook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First there was the master conjurer adept at musicals, farces, opera and Shakespeare. Then there was the philosopher-king ... who has devoted his energies to a quest for a theatre that was simple in form and rich in meaning." - Michael Billington The theatre's greatest contemporary director tells the story of his life.Peter Brook was the modern stage's greatest inventor. For over 50 years he held audiences spellbound with his critically acclaimed productions. This is his account of his life. Born in 1925 in London, at 21 Brook became the enfant terrible of British theatre, directing major post-war productions of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon, opera at Covent Garden and new plays in London's West End. He even made films. In 1964 he produced Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade for the RSC and his whole approach to theatre became radicalised. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Brook began exploring the roots of non-Western theatre which once again changed his view of what theatre could be for actors and audiences. His journey took him to Paris where he founded a company at the Bouffes du Nord theatre. Brook's biography charts all the stages of his aesthetic and spiritual journey, and touches on all parts of a career that has been widely reported but never previously talked about from his personal perspective.

Demigods Academy - Book 4

Author : Elisa S. Amore
Publisher : Amore Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781947425293
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Demigods Academy - Book 4 written by Elisa S. Amore and published by Amore Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the Academy with Melany and her friends in this epic finale full of magic, mythology, and adventures.

These Tangled Threads (Bells of Lowell Book #3)

Author : Tracie Peterson
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 1441203338
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book These Tangled Threads (Bells of Lowell Book #3) written by Tracie Peterson and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3 of Bells of Lowell. Timid yet alluring Daughtie Winfield finds herself in a precarious position when the new doctor casts his favor upon her. Though flattered by his attention, she is drawn to Liam Donohue, a local Irish artisan. As Daughtie and Liam work together to help runaway slaves, their friendship blossoms. But her work in the mills is threatened when a downturn in profits causes the Associates to decrease wages--resulting in plans for a strike. With the fate of the textile industry in an upheaval, will her hopes for love be thwarted as dissention infiltrates life in Lowell?