Event Title
Location
Diamond 242
Start Date
1-5-2014 9:00 AM
End Date
1-5-2014 10:50 AM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
Chinese Embroidery has been a object of fascination, and easy to find once one started looking for it. In Chinese history, many things are embroidered and the embroidery itself holds symbolic meaning to it. Looking at the symbolic meanings of each embroidery, gender roles are clearly noted especially in a society based on Confucius values at the time. Not only were the embroidered art are gendered, but the practice of embroidery itself was gendered female. Women were responsible for domestic works, so they stayed inside the four walls of their house and took care of the children, cleaned the house and many embroidered with other women of the family in the women quarter. The act of embroidery then was gendered women.
Faculty Sponsor
Elizabeth LaCouture
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. History Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Social Sciences
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
506
Embroidery and Gender in Chinese History
Diamond 242
Chinese Embroidery has been a object of fascination, and easy to find once one started looking for it. In Chinese history, many things are embroidered and the embroidery itself holds symbolic meaning to it. Looking at the symbolic meanings of each embroidery, gender roles are clearly noted especially in a society based on Confucius values at the time. Not only were the embroidered art are gendered, but the practice of embroidery itself was gendered female. Women were responsible for domestic works, so they stayed inside the four walls of their house and took care of the children, cleaned the house and many embroidered with other women of the family in the women quarter. The act of embroidery then was gendered women.
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2014/program/400