The (In)Visibility of Men in the U.S.-American Quilt World

This book investigates men and quiltmaking, an under-researched part of the U.S.-American quilt world. It analyzes the connection between the genderedness of material practice and White masculinity concepts in the U.S.-American mainstream. The examination of the construct of masculinity in two quilt novel series from the 2010s aims to answer the question of whether the characters’ attitudes towards quiltmaking and quilts as objects provide information about change in heterosexual gender relation