03148nam 2200721 a 450 991045791620332120200520144314.01-280-10387-697866135205860-520-95031-310.1525/9780520950313(CKB)2550000000067367(EBL)785219(OCoLC)763156525(SSID)ssj0000585070(PQKBManifestationID)11398041(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000585070(PQKBWorkID)10595088(PQKB)10852472(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083914(MiAaPQ)EBC785219(OCoLC)780449873(MdBmJHUP)muse30841(DE-B1597)520812(OCoLC)1066010257(DE-B1597)9780520950313(Au-PeEL)EBL785219(CaPaEBR)ebr10529560(CaONFJC)MIL352058(EXLCZ)99255000000006736720110520d2012 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrFabricating consumers[electronic resource] the sewing machine in modern Japan /Andrew Gordon1st ed.Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc20121 online resource (303 p.)Asia : local studies/global themes ;no. 19"A Philip E. Lilienthal book."0-520-26785-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Singer in Japan -- pt. 2. Sewing modernity in war and peace.Since its early days of mass production in the 1850's, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.Asia--local studies/global themes ;19.Sewing-machine industryUnited StatesHistory20th centuryClothing tradeJapanHistory20th centuryConsumersJapanHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Sewing-machine industryHistoryClothing tradeHistoryConsumersHistory338.7/64620440952Gordon Andrew1952-1017492MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457916203321Fabricating consumers2492728UNINA