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Gordon, Sarah A.

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'Make it yourself': Home sewing, gender and culture, 1890--1930.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Make it yourself': Home sewing, gender and culture, 1890--1930./
Author:	Gordon, Sarah A.
Description:	200 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2332.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3135868
ISBN:	0496830716

'Make it yourself': Home sewing, gender and culture, 1890--1930.
Gordon, Sarah A.

'Make it yourself': Home sewing, gender and culture, 1890--1930. - 200 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2332.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - Newark, 2004.

The period 1880 to 1930 witnessed concurrent changes in women's domestic roles and in the American economic structure. 'Make It Yourself' examines home sewing as a place where these two trends informed each other, using sewing as a lens to examine domestic labor, business practices, changing standards of femininity, and understandings of class and race. As industrialization made ready-made garments increasingly available, many women, out of necessity or choice, continued to make their own clothing. In doing so, women used a customary female skill both as a means of behaving in accordance with traditional ideas and as a tool of personal agency. The shifting meanings of sewing became a contested space where businesses marketed sewing machines as tools for maintaining domestic harmony; women interpreted patterns to suit their own definitions of appropriate appearances; and girls were taught to sew in ways that reflected beliefs about class, race, and geographical location. Overall, as home sewing declined in practical importance, it grew in symbolic weight, making it a unique vehicle for understanding larger changes in American culture.

ISBN: 0496830716Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

'Make it yourself': Home sewing, gender and culture, 1890--1930.
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