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OverviewMendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In this narrative about making meaning of brokenness and grief, Megan Sweeney reflects on her childhood entanglement with her mother, her loss-filled relationship with her alcoholic father, and her attachment to the clothes that have mended her as she has mended them. Sweeney explores how clothing fosters communication and enables us to cultivate relationships with ourselves and with others, both living and deceased. In dialogue with other clothing lovers, writers, fiber artists, evolutionary biologists, historians, and environmentalists, Sweeney also foregrounds the entwinement of clothing, race, and gender as she considers the ethics and environmental effects of clothing consumption, the history of clothing in the US prison system, and the roles that textiles play as sources of creativity, artistry, and self-fashioning, even within conditions of constraint. For Sweeney, the act of mending is a way of living. Unlike fixing, which leaves no trace of damage or loss, mending allows Sweeney to embrace holes, rips, and threadbare patches as part of her life's design. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Megan SweeneyPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9781478019107ISBN 10: 1478019107 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 04 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsA Note on Ornaments ix Piecing. A Prologue 1 1. Selvedge 10 2. Salvage 75 3. Redress 113 4. Threads 137 5. Mending 177 Hem. Acknowledgments 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 223 Index 231ReviewsAuthor InformationMegan Sweeney is Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor of English, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons and editor of The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |