Becky Male
![Spare Rib jumper in the main library](https://womenslibrary.org.uk/gwl_wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Spare-Rib-Jumper-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Podcast
What should have been a quick blog post, rapidly grew to four posts when Becky started writing about feminism and knitting. This is the audio version of those posts to hopefully make a long piece of writing a little more accessible.
![A pink sleeveless jumper in the main library. It has a band of multicoloured venus symbols around the middle.](https://womenslibrary.org.uk/gwl_wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Beckys-Spare-Rib-Jumper-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Part 4 – ReKnitting the Woman’s Woolly
In the last of the series, how changes in the culture of knitting influenced the economics of knitting and how Becky’s jumper was made.
![A pink sleeveless jumper in the main library. It has a band of multicoloured venus symbols around the middle.](https://womenslibrary.org.uk/gwl_wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Beckys-Spare-Rib-Jumper-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Part 3 – Ribbed for My Pleasure
After making a jumper for the GWL archive, this next jumper explores modern ideas in feminism and knitting.
![Spare Rib jumper in the main library](https://womenslibrary.org.uk/gwl_wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Spare-Rib-Jumper-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Part 2 – P1R1 (Progress 1, Regress 1)
Details of how the Spare Rib jumper was made and exploring where it pushes boundaries and where it conforms.
![Spare Rib jumper in the main library](https://womenslibrary.org.uk/gwl_wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Spare-Rib-Jumper-1-scaled-1.jpg)
Knitting the Woman’s Woolly: Part 1 – Purls of Feminist History
Feminist magazine Spare Rib published a pattern for a handknitted jumper in 1982. As volunteer Becky knitted one up for our collection, the more there was to learn about the jumper and its position in the history of knitting and feminism.