Becoming textile –Challenging the Feminization of Textile Jobs

https://doi.org/10.25058/20112742.n32.11

Tania Pérez-Bustos
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-2885-2606
Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
tcperezb@unal.edu.co

Alexandra Chocontá-Piraquive
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-2577
Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
alexandrachoconta@gmail.com

Carolina Rincón-Rincón
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1765-8389
Escuela de Estudios de Género, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
crrinconri@unal.edu.co

Eliana Sánchez-Aldana
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6748-5247
Departamento de Diseño Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
em.sancheza@uniandes.edu.co

Abstract:

This paper presents material correlates between textile-handmade trades and subjective and gendered configurations among a range of women. In order to do that, we analyze material features called forth by women who own and make fabric pieces on a daily basis, by telling the tales they keep. As a result of the analysis, we found that through those textile crafts, many women are made themselves, leading some of them to embody traditional female representations, and others to display different deviations of this gendered rule.

Keywords: becoming textile, material metaphors, feminization, narratives.