Quilts and Human Rights
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
9-2016
Publication Title
ARLIS/NA
Publisher
ARLIS/NA
Abstract
In American culture, the handmade quilt has long been a freighted signifier of home comforts, domestic economy, and "women's work" in the private realm. In Quilts and Human Rights, four quilt scholars from the Michigan State University Museum subvert that notion mightily, demonstrating that, for over two hundred years, thousands of women across many cultures have used their quilting skills instrumentally, to assert themselves as citizens of the wider world, capable of organizing to address human rights abuses and agitate for social change at home and abroad.
Recommended Citation
Edwards, Kathy, "Quilts and Human Rights" (2016). Publications. 159.
https://open.clemson.edu/lib_pubs/159