"Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930 |
Autore | Gordon Sarah A |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [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 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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" |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248292903316 |
Gordon Sarah A
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Alien encounters [[electronic resource] ] : popular culture in Asian America / / Mimi Thi Nguyen and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, editors |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.895/073 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
NguyenMimi Thi <1974->
TuThuy Linh N |
Soggetto topico |
Asian Americans - Intellectual life
Asian Americans - Ethnic identity Asian Americans - Social life and customs Asian Americans - Study and teaching Popular culture - United States |
ISBN | 0-8223-3910-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Rapping and repping Asian : race, authenticity, and the Asian American MC / Oliver Wang -- Silenced but not silent : Asian Americans and jazz / Kevin Fellezs -- Homicidal tendencies : violence and the global economy in Asian American pulp fiction / Christopher A. Shinn -- Visual reconnaissance / Joan Kee -- Chinese restaurant drive-thru / Indigo Som -- The guru and the cultural politics of placelessness / Sukhdev Sandhu -- Cooking up the senses : a critical embodied approach to the study of food and Asian American television audiences / Martin F. Manalansan -- Performing culture in diaspora : assimilation and hybridity in Paris by night videos and Vietnamese American niche media / Nhi T. Lieu -- Indo-Chic : late capitalist orientalism and imperial culture / Sunaina Maira -- Asian American auto/biographies : the gendered limits of consumer citizenship in import subcultures / Robyn Magalit Rodriguez and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez -- Bruce Lee I love you : discourses of race and masculinity in the queer superstardom of JJ Chinois / Mimi Thi Nguyen -- Race and software / Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777906603321 |
Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 | ||
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All Indians do not live in teepees (or casinos) [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine C. Robbins |
Autore | Robbins Catherine C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
Disciplina | 970.004/97 |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of North America - Social life and customs
Indians of North America - Material culture |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-54701-4
9786613596192 0-8032-3812-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : flying together -- The unconquerables -- Thoughts from the chief -- An encampment -- The way we should -- Where hatred was born -- The drum -- Buckskin boxes, galactic explosion -- Disclosures : we help each other. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461399203321 |
Robbins Catherine C
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All Indians do not live in teepees (or casinos) [[electronic resource] /] / Catherine C. Robbins |
Autore | Robbins Catherine C |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
Disciplina | 970.004/97 |
Soggetto topico |
Indians of North America - Social life and customs
Indians of North America - Material culture |
ISBN |
1-280-54701-4
9786613596192 0-8032-3812-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : flying together -- The unconquerables -- Thoughts from the chief -- An encampment -- The way we should -- Where hatred was born -- The drum -- Buckskin boxes, galactic explosion -- Disclosures : we help each other. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790122803321 |
Robbins Catherine C
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Lincoln [Neb.], : University of Nebraska Press, c2011 | ||
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America's disaster culture : the production of natural disasters in literature and pop culture / / Robert C. Bell and Robert M. Ficociello |
Autore | Bell Robert C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 pages) |
Disciplina | 303.48/50973 |
Soggetto topico |
Disasters in literature
Natural disasters - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-5013-9621-8
1-62892-462-4 1-62892-463-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the death of the natural disaster and the birth of disaster culture -- Trouble when the dust settles : narrative authority and Ken Burns -- Discourse disaste R: San Francisco earthquakes in 1906 and 1989 -- Natural disaster : September 11th, 2001 -- Gulf wars : the narratives of Iraq and New Orleans -- Sandy : subjectivity, celebrity, and social media -- The end of disaster capitalism : (a)bjection to (z)ombies of final disasters -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511312303321 |
Bell Robert C.
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , [2017] | ||
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America's disaster culture : the production of natural disasters in literature and pop culture / / Robert C. Bell and Robert M. Ficociello |
Autore | Bell Robert C. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 pages) |
Disciplina | 303.48/50973 |
Soggetto topico |
Disasters in literature
Natural disasters - Social aspects - United States |
ISBN |
1-5013-9621-8
1-62892-462-4 1-62892-463-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the death of the natural disaster and the birth of disaster culture -- Trouble when the dust settles : narrative authority and Ken Burns -- Discourse disaste R: San Francisco earthquakes in 1906 and 1989 -- Natural disaster : September 11th, 2001 -- Gulf wars : the narratives of Iraq and New Orleans -- Sandy : subjectivity, celebrity, and social media -- The end of disaster capitalism : (a)bjection to (z)ombies of final disasters -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795586103321 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , [2017] | ||
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America's oddest fads / / by M.H. Seeley |
Autore | Seeley M. H |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Gareth Stevens Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations |
Disciplina | 973 |
Collana | Weird America |
Soggetto topico |
Fads - United States - History
Curiosities and wonders - United States - History Popular culture - United States - History |
ISBN | 1-4824-5750-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Panorama Drama -- Raccoons on Your Where? -- I'm Stuffed! -- Calling the Dead -- Dance the Night Away -- This Tastes Fishy -- Sit! Stay! Sew! -- Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow -- Turn, Turn, Turn -- Wright's Wrong -- Pet Rock -- Atop a Flagpole -- The Swinging Sixties -- Glossary -- For More Information -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910158652503321 |
Seeley M. H
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New York : , : Gareth Stevens Publishing, , 2017 | ||
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American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning / / Kate Sweeney |
Autore | Sweeney Kate <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 393 |
Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States
Mourning customs - United States Undertakers and undertaking - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8203-4689-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 American Ways of Death; CHAPTER 2 Gone, but Not Forgotten; DISMAL TRADE: Sarah Peacock, Memorial Tattoo Artist: Under the Skin; CHAPTER 3 The Cemetery's Cemetery; DISMAL TRADE: Kay Powell, Obituary Writer: The Doyenne Speaks; CHAPTER 4 The Last Great Obit Writers' Conference; CHAPTER 5 Give Me That Old-Time Green Burial; DISMAL TRADE: Oana Hogrefe, Memorial Photographer Memory Maker; CHAPTER 6 The House Where Death Lives; DISMAL TRADE: Lenette Hall, Owner, The Urngarden: The Business at the Back of the Closet; CHAPTER 7 With the Fishes
DISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464938503321 |
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American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning / / Kate Sweeney |
Autore | Sweeney Kate <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 393 |
Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States
Mourning customs - United States Undertakers and undertaking - United States |
ISBN | 0-8203-4689-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 American Ways of Death; CHAPTER 2 Gone, but Not Forgotten; DISMAL TRADE: Sarah Peacock, Memorial Tattoo Artist: Under the Skin; CHAPTER 3 The Cemetery's Cemetery; DISMAL TRADE: Kay Powell, Obituary Writer: The Doyenne Speaks; CHAPTER 4 The Last Great Obit Writers' Conference; CHAPTER 5 Give Me That Old-Time Green Burial; DISMAL TRADE: Oana Hogrefe, Memorial Photographer Memory Maker; CHAPTER 6 The House Where Death Lives; DISMAL TRADE: Lenette Hall, Owner, The Urngarden: The Business at the Back of the Closet; CHAPTER 7 With the Fishes
DISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789028503321 |
Sweeney Kate <1978->
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Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014 | ||
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American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning / / Kate Sweeney |
Autore | Sweeney Kate <1978-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
Disciplina | 393 |
Soggetto topico |
Funeral rites and ceremonies - United States
Mourning customs - United States Undertakers and undertaking - United States |
ISBN | 0-8203-4689-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 American Ways of Death; CHAPTER 2 Gone, but Not Forgotten; DISMAL TRADE: Sarah Peacock, Memorial Tattoo Artist: Under the Skin; CHAPTER 3 The Cemetery's Cemetery; DISMAL TRADE: Kay Powell, Obituary Writer: The Doyenne Speaks; CHAPTER 4 The Last Great Obit Writers' Conference; CHAPTER 5 Give Me That Old-Time Green Burial; DISMAL TRADE: Oana Hogrefe, Memorial Photographer Memory Maker; CHAPTER 6 The House Where Death Lives; DISMAL TRADE: Lenette Hall, Owner, The Urngarden: The Business at the Back of the Closet; CHAPTER 7 With the Fishes
DISMAL TRADE: Anne Gordon, Funeral Chaplain: Funerals Are FunCHAPTER 8 Death by the Roadside; AFTERWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818929403321 |
Sweeney Kate <1978->
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