Three important resources on the study of « object lives » and the subversive political power of craft: Janice Helland, Beverly Lemire and Alena Buis (ed.) Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century, 2014 ; Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers, and Anne Whitelaw (ed.) Object lives and global histories in northern North America: material culture in motion, c. 1780-1980, 2021 ; Rozsika Parker, The subversive stitch : embroidery and the making of the feminine, 1984.
