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The needle's eye : women and work in the age of revolution /

Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife, perpetually spinning, sewing, darning, and quilting, answering all of her family's textile needs. But the Goodwife of popular historical imagination obscures as much as she reveals; the icon appears to expl...

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Main Author: Miller, Marla R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2006.
Subjects and Genres:
Arbeit, ...
Women > Employment > Massachusetts > Hadley (Town) > History.
Needleworkers > Massachusetts > Hadley (Town) > Case studies.
Women artisans > Massachusetts > Hadley (Town) > Case studies.
Social classes > Massachusetts > Hadley (Town) > History.
Clothing trade > Massachusetts > Hadley (Town) > History.
Femmes > Travail > Massachusetts > Hadley > Histoire.
Travailleuses à l'aiguille > Massachusetts > Hadley > Études de cas.
Artisanes > Massachusetts > Hadley > Études de cas.
Classes sociales > Massachusetts > Hadley > Histoire.
Vêtements > Industrie et commerce > Massachusetts > Hadley > Histoire.
Clothing trade
Needleworkers
Social classes
Women artisans
Women > Employment
Soziale Situation
Frau
Arbeit
Massachusetts > Hadley (Town)
Massachusetts
Case studies.
Case studies
History
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Early American Artisanry: Why Gender Matters
  • 1
  • 1
  • Clothing and Consumers in Rural New England, 1760-1810
  • 25
  • 2
  • Needle Trades in New England, 1760-1810
  • 56
  • 3
  • Needlework of the Rural Gentry: The World of Elizabeth Porter Phelps
  • 89
  • 4
  • Family, Community, and Informal Work in the Needle Trades: The Worlds of Easter Fairchild Newton and Tryphena Newton Cooke
  • 114
  • 5
  • Family, Artisanry, and Craft Tradition: The Worlds of Tabitha Clark Smith and Rebecca Dickinson
  • 134
  • 6
  • Gender, Artisanry, and Craft Tradition: The World of Catherine Phelps Parsons
  • 163
  • 7
  • Women's Artisanal Work in the Changing New England Marketplace
  • 185
  • Conclusion: The Romance of Old Clothes
  • 211.
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction :
  • Early American artisanry : why gender matters
  • pt. 1.
  • 1.
  • Clothing and consumers in rural New England, 1760-1810
  • 2.
  • Needle trades in New England, 1760-1810
  • pt. II
  • 3.
  • Needlework of the rural gentry : the world of Elizabeth Porter Phelps
  • 4.
  • Family, community, and informal work in the needle trades : the worlds of Easter Fairchild Newton and Tryphena Newton Cooke
  • 5.
  • Family, artisanry, and craft tradition : the worlds of Tabitha Clark Smith and Rebecca Dickinson
  • 6.
  • Gender, artisanry, and craft tradition : the world of Catherine Phelps Parsons
  • pt. 3.
  • 7.
  • Women's artisanal work in the changing New England marketplace
  • Conclusion :
  • The romance of old clothes
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index.

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