The Gift and the Proper–Frothing the Synaptic Bath Jan C Wilson

The act of knitting in public is often seen as a contentious act resulting in vitriolic protests and publicity beyond that which one would expect from what seems such a harmless act. Jan C Wilson presents The Gift and the Proper–Frothing the Synaptic Bath in the West Side space.

The honorable Judith Tizard's act of knitting in parliament had Winston Peters complaining that she was "arrogant and disrespectful" and that that act was typical of her "contempt and arrogance." Similarly, Richard Prebble allowed that "knitting needles were a device" and should be banned from Chambers and Bill English equated the act to "text messaging." Yet while in that instance knitting was seen as something rebellious, generally when a woman is told to 'stay at home with her knitting' that charge sarcastically places her in a No Mans Land of domesticity. So apparently a knitter can be a subversive or she can relegate herself to a position beyond individuality and only be useful in terms of the needs of others, effectively liquidating her selfhood.

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