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The article offers information on the use of word women instead of ladies, highlighting the feminist relevance to it. It states the cover of the book "The Women's Room," by Marilyn French, where a woman's hand vandalizes the word Women with Ladies. It mentions that the term ladies is used in various context, specially signifying a well mannered, obedient and conventional woman.

This article presents information on the relationship between knitting and feminity. Despite the massive changes made by the society knitting is still so gendered. knitting is sometimes denigrated because it's associated with women, and that's worth raising consciousness about. Besides, it's a great way to see cause and effect happen at one's fingertips, and that's hard to see anymore in this world. Debbie Stoller, co-founder of BUST magazine wrote that by loudly reclaiming old fashioned skills, women are rebelling against a culture that seems to reward only the sleek, the mass-produced, the male.