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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