The article "Knitting as Dissent" in sum is saying how women are basically supposed to be the housewives while the husbands are doing industrial work, this applies to knitting in a way that in my opinion if a woman was to do things outside the structure that they are told to follow than those of “high power” would stop them. While knitting may not be considered easy, I do not believe in stereotyping a hobby to be only for women and placing it in the necessities of being a housewife. As I was reading this article, it raised the question regarding why this is excluded from history and isn’t taught in schools as opposed to the time period. The idea that I found interesting was how though this article may have other issues highlighted within it, was the theme surrounding oppressed women and how they were looked to be the providers as a wife, mother, and knitters. In conclusion, for my modern take on this, the idea of how stereotypes had played a crucial role around this era had caused those that were wanting change to be frowned upon by those opposed.
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