1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458290503321

Titolo

Maternal effects as adaptations [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Timothy A. Mousseau & Charles W. Fox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

1-280-52929-6

9786610529292

0-19-534440-5

1-4294-0417-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MousseauTimothy A

FoxCharles W

Disciplina

576.8/5

Soggetti

Adaptation (Biology)

Evolution (Biology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This volume was spawned by a symposium, Maternal Effects as Adaptations, organized for the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, held in St. Louis in June 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part I: Conceptual Issues; Part II: Assessment and Measurement; Part III: Reviews of Maternal Effects Expression; Part IV: Case Studies of Maternal Effects; Concluding Remarks: Generalizations, Implications, and Future Directions; Taxonomic Index; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Phenotypic variation is influenced by both genetic and environmental variation. One important source of environmental variation is the maternal effect: influences of the maternal environment on offspring phenotype.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248292903316

Autore

Gordon Sarah A

Titolo

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

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