Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan Volume 19

Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan Volume 19

Gordon, Andrew

Hardcover

Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes, Book 19

Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Asian History

ISBN10: 0520267850
ISBN13: 9780520267855
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 1 2011
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine's remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.

Also in

General Asian History

View All