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Author:

Sapelly, Laura Elizabeth

Title:

Pedagogies of Historical and Contemporary American Sewing Circles

Graduate Program:

Art Education

Keywords:

sewing circle
united states
quilting
sewing
knitting
temperance
abolition
civil war
19th century
intergenerational
quilting bee
knitting group
sanitary commission
activism
textile activism
embroidery
sampler
colonial new england
antebellum
anti-slavery
needlework
social practice
philadelphia female antislavery society
US History
hand sewing
hand quilting
teaching
transformative learning theory
everyday ordinary aesthetics
living aesthetics
interracial
republican motherhood
cult of true womanhood
cult of domesticity
underground railroad
contraband relief association
slave quilting
authenticity
house slaves
gendered task assignment
slave seamstress
self-actualization
activist sewing circle
friendship quilts
american revolution
soldiers aid society
elizabeth keckley
WCTU
crusade quilt

File:

Download LauraSapellyDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Yvonne Madelaine Gaudelius, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor