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Embroidering Mexico: Feminine Spaces, Dechados And The National Space, Regina Perez Kamel
Embroidering Mexico: Feminine Spaces, Dechados And The National Space, Regina Perez Kamel
Theses and Dissertations
Mexican dechados consisted of pieces of cloth were women and girls would practice and record needlework. It was a practice rooted in western tradition where they were known as samplers. Given that dechados were objects that were made within feminine spaces they illuminate how gender is constructed through space, and how those gendered spaces generate different ways of knowing.
As the majority of Mexican dechados correspond to the nineteenth century, a period of national construction, this study questions the role that the domestic space played in the establishment of the Mexican nation. It proposes that although displaced and subservient to …