"Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930
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| Autore: |
Gordon Sarah A
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| Titolo: |
"Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930
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| Pubblicazione: | [Place of publication not identified], : Columbia University Press, 2009 |
| Disciplina: | 646.20973 |
| 646.40097309041 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Social life and customs |
| 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 |
| Altri titoli varianti: | "Make It Yourself" |
| Titolo autorizzato: | "Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248292903316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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