The article "Knitting as Dissent" says knitting is commonly thought of as women's work because, like breastfeeding and childcare, it can be started and stopped easily. Breastfeeding and childcare are both emotionally and physically tiring activities. While knitting is not as easy as one may think, I do not think it is fair to place knitting in the same category as breastfeeding and childcare.
This article also mentions how knitting is unthreatening and allowed women to sneak enemy information into generals, or take clothes to the front lines. However, these stories are not mentioned in most history and I would really like to know why that is.
I also found it interesting that all of the clothes knitted for war were given to the men because it was assumed that the women could knit their own clothes. The women in the WASPS and other groups were not actively fighting and because they were women everyone assumed they could knit their own clothes. To me, this seems like the women who were doing "manly jobs" were not supported by other women. Does it seem like that to anyone else?
Knitting as Dissent
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