Mendings by Sweeney, Megan

Mendings

Mendings tells an intimate story about family, selfhood, and the love and loss lodged in garments. In...
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Author: Megan Sweeney
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Mendings by Sweeney, Megan

Mendings

$58.78

Mendings

$58.78
Author: Megan Sweeney
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Mendings 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.

Author: Megan Sweeney
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.93w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781478019107

About the Author
Megan 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.


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