"Make It Yourself"

by Sarah Gordon

Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890–1930

• 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