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Author Sweeney, Megan, 1967- author.

Title Mendings / Megan Sweeney.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Selvedge -- Salvage -- Redress -- Threads -- Mending.
Summary "Through five formally distinct yet interlinked essays, Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments, and a broader story about clothes and mending as tools for navigating the vicissitudes of living. In dialogue with clothing lovers, fiber artists, evolutionary biologists, historians, and environmentalists, the book illuminates the crucial roles that clothing plays in enabling us to communicate; to cultivate relationships with ourselves and with others; to counter injustice and make meaning from violence and grief; and to experience the joys of creativity, artistry, and self-fashioning. In addition to featuring artwork by Nina Katchadourian, Elena Herzog, Celia Pym, Merrill Goldstein, Gali Cnaani and others, Mendings includes photographs of childhood letters, family artifacts, journal entries, and paintings and sketches by the author and her family."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Sweeney, Megan, 1967-
Women -- United States -- Biography.
Clothing and dress -- Repairing -- Social aspects.
Clothing and dress -- Repairing -- Psychological aspects.
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects.
Femmes -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
Vêtements -- Entretien et réparations -- Aspect social.
Vêtements -- Entretien et réparations -- Aspect psychologique.
Deuil -- Aspect psychologique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
Women
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Sweeney, Megan, 1967- Mendings. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 9781478019107 9781478016465 (DLC) 2022039183 (OCoLC)1330196373
ISBN 9781478023739 (ebook)
1478023732 (ebook)
9781478093596 (ebook other)
1478093595 (ebook other)
9781478019107 (paperback)
1478019107 (paperback)
9781478016465 (hardcover)
1478016469 (hardcover)
Standard No. AU@ 000073024222

 
    
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