Abstract
A feminist analysis of the Sloyd crafting education movement reveals how it contributed to the transformation of Western culture’s foundational gender system. The Sloyd movement transformed traditional domestic crafts in patriarchal families into formal manual education courses and programs that were disseminated around the globe at the turn of the twentieth century. Feminist understanding of the historical context of European patriarchy is essential in appreciating how Sloyd programs contributed to reform women’s transformations of patriarchal ideology and social structures. The Sloyd educational movement could not have developed without the prior development of public schools with manual education. Feminist critical reading was required to gender largely de-gendered histories of European manual education and the development of the Sloyd movement. Feminist theories, methods, and research have provided insights into the importance of the Sloyd crafting education movement in materially transforming gender roles, identities, ideology, and social power dynamics.
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Spencer-Wood, S.M. (2019). The Temporal and Spatial Propagation of the Sloyd Educational Crafting Movement Across the Global Landscape from the late 19th Century into the 20th Century. In: Burke, C., Spencer-Wood, S.M. (eds) Crafting in the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65088-3_8
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