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

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

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

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

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