Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 300 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780252054648
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0252054644
Series Statement:
Women in American history
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-291) and index
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Intro -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. Fashion and Independence: Dressmakers and Milliners in the Antebellum City -- Female Artisans and Feminine Pursuits -- Villains, Victims, and Disreputable Women: Literary Images -- Part One * The Female Economy: Proprietors, Workers, and Consumers, ca. 1860-1910 -- Two. A Precarious Independence: Female Proprietors in Gilded Age Boston -- Understanding Women's Businesses -- Boston's Milliners and Dressmakers: Who Were They? -- "I... Will Admire Your Independence": The Business of Singlehood -- "Not Much of a Help": The Business of Marriage -- Three. The Female Aristocracy of Labor: Workers in the Trades, 1860-1917 -- Age and Ethnicity -- Motives: Family and Independence -- Work and Gentility -- Work and Wages -- Madame, the Employer -- Accommodation and Resistance: Workers' Responses -- Four. The Social Relations of Consumption: Producers and Consumers in the Era of Custom Production -- A Different Kind of Consumerism -- The Ambiguities of Class -- Fashion and Beauty: Contested Terrain -- Time and Money -- The Sexual Politics of Fashion -- Part Two * Gendered Transformations: Toward Mass Production, 1860-1930 -- Five. A Feminine Skill: Work, Technology, and the Sexual Division of Labor in the Dressmaking Trade, 1860-1920 -- A "Feminine" Skill -- Home and Workshop: The Double Meaning of Women's Work -- "Reduced to Science": The Transformation of Dressmaking -- Six. Commerce over Craft: Wholesalers and Retailers in the Millinery Trade, 1860-1930 -- Male Wholesalers, Female Retailers: Credit, Gender, and Paternalism -- The Rationalization of Wholesaling -- Industrialization from Without: The Separation of Production from Retailing -- Seven. Engendering Change: The Department Store and the Factory, 1890-1930.
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The Art of Selling: Dressmakers, Milliners, and Department Stores -- The New Kind of Shop -- Millinery in the Wholesale Factory -- The Efficient Millinery -- From Dressmaker to Garment Worker -- The Specialized Dressmaking Shop -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Essay on Primary Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 025202298X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252022982
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0252066014
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780252066016
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gamber, Wendy, 1958- Female economy Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1997
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Hochschulschrift
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