Green Shoes - Forty years of radical women's craft collective
Green Shoes - Forty years of radical women's craft collective
Alison Hastie - Turnaround Publisher Services
Coming of age in the early 1980s, Alison Hastie always knew she was different from the conventional young people around her. One night a voice spoke to her in a dream, telling her to make shoes, and this is how she spent forty years of her working life. Living on Dartmoor, travelling between the countercultural town of Totnes and the surrounding villages, Alison made a home and a life for herself based on the principles of second-wave feminism, the idea that small is beautiful, and a deep immersive commitment to craft. Her company, Green Shoes, was featured in the national and international press, and making shoes took her travelling as far as the north of Finland, but she remained rooted in her environment, family and the women's collective which, like the Ship of Theseus, was consistent in its values despite many changes of personnel. Here, Alison describes her place in the long line of West Country radicals.
Published 2026,
Hardback,
Pages: 280
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Product code: ALIS001
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