Knitting culture

In the book of British researcher Joan Turni, a new look at this well -known type of needlework is proposed. Knitting has a rich history - not only as a certain technique of weaving threads, but also as a lifestyle. The author shows how the idea of ​​knitting was changing from the 1970s to the present. The book is interesting to the breadth of methodological approaches: knitting and gender, knitting and power, knitting and postmodernism, knitting and practices of feminism. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular methodology and demonstrates previously hidden meanings of knitting practice. The material of the study is female novels and detectives, the work of contemporary artists and oral narratives, knitting patterns and performances