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"Make it yourself": home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930
Sarah A. Gordon
Year: 2009, c2007.
Publisher:  Columbia University Press. 
© Columbia University Press
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
List of Illustrations
List of Audio Clips
Acknowledgments
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
Notes
Introduction
Chapter One: “Sewed Considerable”: Home Sewing and the Meanings of Women's Domestic Work
Chapter Two: “Boundless Possibilities”
Chapter Three: “When Mother Lets Us Sew”: Girls, Sewing, and Femininity
Chapter Four: Commodifying “Domestic Virtues”: Business and Home Sewing
Chapter Five: Clothing for Sport: Home Sewing as a Laboratory for New Standards
Epilogue
Glossary
Bibliography
Primary Books, Articles, and Toys
Manuscript and Photograph Collections
Museum Artifacts
Business Records and Sewing Patterns
Oral Histories and Personal Communications
Government Documents
Periodicals and Newspapers
Secondary Books and Articles
Web Links
About the Author
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Title: "Make it yourself" : home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930 / by Sarah A. Gordon.
Author: Gordon, Sarah A
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Gordon, Sarah A
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, c2007.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.99021
Subject Headings: • Sewing -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Sewing -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Home economics -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Home economics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• United States -- Social life and customs
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