> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Reference:: Katoshevski, M., & Huss, E. (2020). Using crafts in art Therapy through an intersectional feminist empowerment lens. In _Routledge eBooks_ (pp. 144–154). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003050513-12 > Date:: 2020 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Health value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft helps recovery from trauma]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Crafts were of benefit to Bedouin woman as art therapy to develop cultural identity. ### Highlights Because crafts are associated with women who are poor or working class and/or people of color, they lend themselves to socially contextualized analyses from an intersectional feminist perspective. This may enable art therapists to use crafts to explore working class women’s cultural forms of expression. In this context, craft’s levels of therapeutic gain, empowerment, and social action can be unpacked and discovered. This will enable art therapists to utilize crafts to work with women within their social realities (Leone, 2018; Moon, 2010; Timm-Bottos, 2011). >In the group of Bedouin women, crafts were used to integrate their cultural identity on the personal level and to gain power from traditional culture, while at the same time resisting and expanding it. As Lippard (1990) stated: Hybrid and emotionally complex stories derived from both tradition and experience, old-new stories, challenge the pervasive “master narratives” that would contain them. . . . It has become clear that the hybrid is one of the most authentic creative expressions in United States. (p. 57) This hybrid expanded from the individual to the group to the community. It included craft processes, skills, products, and the conversations and knowledge gained while co-creating a shared reality group space. It expanded to the financial gain that was sanctioned by the cultural norms. Thus, the different ecological circles of individual, group, and community were all transformed through the crafts.