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Quilts and Human Rights
Marsha Macdowell
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Description for Quilts and Human Rights
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 105 colour photographs. BIC Classification: AFWH; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 330 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Quilts and Human Rights offers a new understanding of the history of global human rights as seen through textiles of awareness and activism. Of all the textile forms linked to human rights activities, one form-the quilt-has proved an especially potent and popular form for individuals, working alone or as part of organized groups, to subversively or overtly act for human rights. Through a description of this activity over time and space, Quilts and Human Rights advances awareness of critical human rights issues: suffrage, race relations, civil wars, natural disasters, HIV/AIDs, and ethnic, sexual, and gender discrimination. Quilts and Human Rights ... Read more
Quilts and Human Rights offers a new understanding of the history of global human rights as seen through textiles of awareness and activism. Of all the textile forms linked to human rights activities, one form-the quilt-has proved an especially potent and popular form for individuals, working alone or as part of organized groups, to subversively or overtly act for human rights. Through a description of this activity over time and space, Quilts and Human Rights advances awareness of critical human rights issues: suffrage, race relations, civil wars, natural disasters, HIV/AIDs, and ethnic, sexual, and gender discrimination. Quilts and Human Rights ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
1069g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803249851
SKU
V9780803249851
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About Marsha Macdowell
Marsha MacDowell is the curator of folk arts and a professor of art and art history; Mary Worrall is the curator of cultural heritage and an education co-manager; Lynne Swanson is an assistant curator of folk arts and cultural collections manager; and Beth Donaldson is the collections assistant for quilts and a digital cultural resources manager; all are located at ... Read more
Reviews for Quilts and Human Rights
Quilts and Human Rights tells superbly scaffolded stories about the powerful intersection of threats and threads. -Patricia A. Turner, author of Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters
Patricia A. Turner Beautifully written, with a venerable combination of straightforward expression and intellectual sophistication, Quilts and Human Rights successfully bridges the fields of women's studies and visual ... Read more
Patricia A. Turner Beautifully written, with a venerable combination of straightforward expression and intellectual sophistication, Quilts and Human Rights successfully bridges the fields of women's studies and visual ... Read more