"Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930

• Autore: Gordon Sarah A
• 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