print email comment close "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 URL: http://www.gutenberg-e.org/gordon/ Description: This monograph considers how "home sewing is laden with multiple meanings about femininity, labor, family, creativity, sexuality, identity, and economics." The author "uses established as well as more unusual source materials, including dresses, sewing workbooks and paper dolls, to argue that home sewing is a unique vehicle for understanding larger changes in American culture." Includes illustrations, audio clips of interviews, and a slide show of someone sewing a skirt. Author: Gordon, Sarah A. Publisher: Columbia University Press LII Database Information: Record 25379 created by Maria Brandt on 02/03/2008 Last modification on 02/05/2008 Published: 02/13/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25379