Biographical Note
Linda Pershing is a folklorist with a focus on women's experiences and feminist theory, peace and justice activism, feminist pedagogy, folklore studies, and the politics of culture.
For six years following the "Ribbon around the Pentagon" event which took place in the summer of 1985, Pershing traveled around the country to interview Ribbon project participants at their homes, photograph Ribbon panels, and collect qualitative research data about the project. She wrote about her ethnographic research of the Ribbon project in her essay Peace Work out of Piecework: Feminist Needlework Metaphors and the Ribbon around the Pentagon (1993) and in her books Sew to Speak: The Fabric Art of Mary Milne (1995) and The Ribbon around the Pentagon: Peace by Piecemakers (1996).