Mots en cheveux. Hériter de l’histoire genrée de la broderie à travers l’écriture
Words made of hair. Women’s reappropriations of writing through embroidery

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary pieces of embroidery showing words made of human hair open up reflecMons upon how women arMsts challenge the tradiMonal parMMon between the needle (for women) and the pen (for men). The arMcle offers a synthesis on the historical construcMon of this gendered assignaMon of needlework to women, from Renaissance to the early twen Meth century. The idea of physical and moral coercion appears in the feminine history of needlework as well as in the history of the access of young women to reading and wriMng. Finally, if embroidery was for a long Mme excluded from metaphorical descripMons of literature, unlike weaving, the arMcle ends up showing how the crossroads between wriMng and embroidery can be seen as a part of women’s emancipaMon.

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