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"Make It Yourself"

by Sarah Gordon

Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • "Sewed Considerable": Home Sewing and the Meanings of Women's Domestic Work
  • "Boundless Possibilities"
  • "When Mother Lets Us Sew": Girls, Sewing, and Femininity
  • Commodifying "Domestic Virtues": Business and Home Sewing
  • Clothing for Sport: Home Sewing as a Laboratory for New Standards
  • Epilogue
  • Interviews
  • Susan Sews a Skirt: slideshow
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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: "Sewed Considerable": Home Sewing and the Meanings of Women's Domestic Work

Chapter 2: "Boundless Possibilities""Boundless Possibilities"

Chapter 3: "When Mother Lets Us Sew": Girls, Sewing, and Femininity

Chapter 4: Commodifying "Domestic Virtues": Business and Home Sewing

Chapter 5: Clothing for Sport: Home Sewing as a Laboratory for New Standards

Epilogue

Bibiography