The Unknown Sock Knitter: Voluntary Work, Emotional Labour, Bereavement and the Great War

Scates, Bruce

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“…In terms of its ‘patterning of gender relations’, its broadly drawn ‘gender regime’ (Connell, 2005: 6), the recreational revival of knitting, sewing and cognate crafts such as crochet has been predominantly but not exclusively something done by women and tied to ideas of femininity through domesticity. 1 This gendering is of course nothing new: knitting, sewing and similar have long histories as gendered ‘handicrafts’, with the labour involved in them valued (or not) in particular ways along gendered lines (Hughes, 2012), or not even counted as labour at all (Scates, 2001: 29).…”

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“…Sewing for Soldiers appears to have had a primarily US-based audience, whilst Hats for Israeli Soldiers emphasises that it distributes hats received from "around the world". These two examples are contemporary iterations of the better known historical practice of women knitting for soldiers, particularly during the First World War (see Scates, 2001), itself part of the wider production of the soldier and war as a social cause which dates back further (which I discuss below).…”

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War craft: The embodied politics of making war

Tidy

2019

Security Dialogue

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https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ War Craft: The embodied politics of making war This article makes the case for examining war from a 'making point of view' (Bunn, 2011). Makers and their material production of and for war have been neglected in our accounts of war, security and international relations. An attention to processes of making for war can reveal important things about how these international processes are lived and produced at the level of the body. The article focuses on the particular phenomena of martial craft labour-the recreational making of 'stuff', including hats and pillowcases, by civilians for soldiers. To explore embodiment within this social site an ethnographic method is outlined that enables the reading of objects as embodied texts, the observation of others in processes of making, and the undertaking of making by the researcher. Analysing embodied registers of aesthetic expression and the social values that attend such crafting for war reveals how this making is a space through which intimate embodied, emotional circulations undertake work for liberal state and military-institutional logics and objectives, obscure violence, normalise war and produce the military as an abstract social cause. Beyond the immediate empirical focus of this article a much wider political entanglement of violence, embodiment and material production necessitates a concerted research agenda. Suicide Vest: Component part of suicide vest. This element comprises the handmade empty vest made out of dark green fabric which has been hand stitched and one side sewn to create a compartment to place objects in. Hole created in the centre to place head through. Single strap sewn at the four corners of the base of the vest. One side of the vest has been cut open.

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War craft: The embodied politics of making war

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2019

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“…Appeals like this, often run by women volunteering through the Red Cross and other organisations, were common in Australia both during the First World War and in its immediate aftermath, and raised large sums. 65 The I.R.P.D.F. appeal, with its emphasis on loans for establishing small businesses and employment for ex-soldiers and their families, was structured similarly to other appeals in various Australian states.…”

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Irish republican women in Australia: Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns's tour in 1924–5

Hall

2019

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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The 1924–5 fundraising tour in Australia by republican activists, Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns, although successful, has received little attention from historians, more focused on the controversial tour of Fr Michael O'Flanagan and J. J. O'Kelly the previous year. While O'Flanagan and O'Kelly's tour ended with their deportation, Barry and Kearns successfully navigated the different agendas of Irish-Australian political and social groups to organise speaking engagements and raise considerable funds for the Irish Republican Prisoners’ Dependants' Fund. The women were experienced republican activists, however on their Australian tour they placed themselves firmly in traditional female patriotic roles, as nurturers and supporters of men fighting for Irish freedom. This article analyses their strategic use of gendered expectations to allay suspicions about their political agenda to successfully raise money and negotiate with political and ecclesiastical leaders.

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“…37 Labour historians have rarely studied the work of assembling food parcels, but Bruce Scates demonstrated that during the First World War creating food parcels was constructed as women's work. 38 Relief workers were volunteers, which was also coded female. In the afterword to a special addition about volunteer labour in the Australian journal Labour History, Alice Kessler-Harris argued that the masculine connotations of worker involved "heavy, muscular activity for pay" and that this feminised volunteer work.…”

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‘This isNot Charity’: the Masculine Work of Strike Relief

Millar

2016

Hist Workshop J

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The Unknown Sock Knitter: Voluntary Work, Emotional Labour, Bereavement and the Great War

Cited by 29 publications

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War craft: The embodied politics of making war

War craft: The embodied politics of making war

Irish republican women in Australia: Kathleen Barry and Linda Kearns's tour in 1924–5

‘This isNot Charity’: the Masculine Work of Strike Relief

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