Women's Work or Creative Work? Embroidery in New South Wales High Schools

Autor/in	Wood, Susan
Titel	Women's Work or Creative Work? Embroidery in New South Wales High Schools
Quelle	In: History of Education, 38 (2009) 6, S.779-789 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Females; Foreign Countries; Womens Education; Womens Studies; Clothing Instruction; Creative Activities; Creative Development; Art Education; Art Expression; Educational History; Needle Trades; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Bekleidungsberuf; Australien
Abstract	Embroidery is traditionally regarded as women's work and the teaching of embroidery as a means of preparing young women for domesticity, a view which has been reinforced by historians studying changes in the high school art curriculum that occurred with the introduction of the Wyndham Scheme in New South Wales in the early 1960s. This paper argues that those involved in promoting and teaching embroidery in NSW high schools at that time had a different agenda. They wanted embroidery to be seen as a legitimate form of creative work. The paper considers the relationship that developed in the 1960s between the Embroiderers' Guild of NSW and the NSW Department of Education. This relationship resulted in a series of ventures intended to promote embroidery as creative, artistic expression rather than as domestic work. The paper argues that, in this context, embroidery was a vehicle for women's agency and self-determination. (Contains 48 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10