"Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248292903316
• Autore: Gordon Sarah A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : Columbia University Press, 2009
• Disciplina: 646.20973; 646.40097309041
• Soggetti: Sewing - History - 19th century - United States; Sewing - History - 20th century - United States; Home economics - History - 19th century - United States; Home economics - History - 20th Century - United States; Sex role - History - 19th century - United States; Art, Architecture & Applied Arts; Arts & Crafts; United States Social life and customs
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- [Intro] -- Historiography -- Sources -- Chapter Overview -- Chapter One: “Sewed Considerable”: Home Sewing and the Meanings of Women's Domestic Work -- [Intro] -- “Women Just Sewed” -- Economy -- Meeting Standards -- Farm Culture -- Good Wives -- Caring Mothers -- Helpful Neighbors and Citizens -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: “Boundless Possibilities” -- [Intro] -- More than Pin Money -- Pleasure in Sewing -- “Clothes that are mine” -- Making Over -- Challenging and Asserting Respectability -- Masking – or Highlighting – Ethnic and Class Distinctions -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: “When Mother Lets Us Sew”: Girls, Sewing, and Femininity -- [Intro] -- Learning at Home -- Schools, Race, and Class -- Settlement Houses, Scouting, and Clubs -- Know How To… -- “How I hate sewing!” -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Commodifying “Domestic Virtues”: Business and Home Sewing -- [Intro] -- Sewing and the U.S. Economy -- Textiles -- Sewing Machines -- Tissue Paper Patterns -- ; Magazines and Books -- Facing the Changes in Home Sewing -- New Business Strategies -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: Clothing for Sport: Home Sewing as a Laboratory for New Standards -- [Intro] -- Changing Views of Women and Sport -- What to Wear? -- Emancipation and Trepidation -- “Any Desired Length” -- Changing Definitions of Modesty -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Interviews -- Susan Sews a Skirt

Human dignity and bioethics [[electronic resource] ] : essays commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910698502703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C. : , : The President's Council on Bioethics, , [2008]
• Descrizione fisica: xix, 555 pages : digital, PDF file
• Soggetti: Dignity; Bioethics; Natural law; Humanism; Human rights; Soul; Sick
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 2, 2008).; "March 2008."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman -- Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis -- How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett -- Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak -- Commentary on Kraynak / Daniel C. Dennett -- Commentary on Dennett / Robert P. Kraynak -- Commentary on Dennett / Alfonso Gómez-Lobo -- Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland -- Commentary on Churchland / Gilbert Meilaender -- Human uniqueness ; and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III -- Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin -- Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom -- Commentary on Bostrom / Charles Rubin -- Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus -- Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Human dignity : exploring and explicating the Council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender -- Commentary on Meilaender and Dennett / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Commentary on Meilaender and Lawler / Diana Schaub -- Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass -- Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell -- Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum -- Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell, and Kass / Diana Schaub -- The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Gelernter -- The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George -- Two arguments from human dignity / Paul Weithman -- Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy -- Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser -- The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino.