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Autore: | Gordon Sarah A |
Titolo: | "Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930 |
Pubblicazione: | [Place of publication not identified], : Columbia University Press, 2009 |
Disciplina: | 646.20973 |
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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 |
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