dc.rights.license | CC-BY-NC-ND | |
dc.contributor.advisor | Wan, Evelyn | |
dc.contributor.author | Metaxa, Iliana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-10T01:01:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-03-10T01:01:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/43634 | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Utrecht University | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.subject | This thesis investigates how two feminist craftivist performance art pieces, Casey Jenkins’
Casting Off My Womb and Wool-spinning Witches and Creabea’s by the Feminist Needlework
Party, reclaim abject femininity in profound ways. Through recalling subversive performance
art practices of the 60’s and 70’s, retracing the threads on the gendered history of craft and
needlework and deconstructing harmful dominant cultural representations, narratives and
discourses, this thesis explores how the two c | |
dc.title | With Needle and Threat: Resignifying Abject Femininity through Feminist Craftivist Performance | |
dc.type.content | Master Thesis | |
dc.rights.accessrights | Open Access | |
dc.subject.keywords | performance; performance art; feminism; craftivism; activism; abject; needlework; craft; witchcraft | |
dc.subject.courseuu | Arts and Society | |
dc.thesis.id | 14789 | |