Fabricating consumers: the sewing machine in modern Japan
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Main Author: Gordon, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Cailf. University of California Press ©2012
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes 19
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
pt. 1. Singer in Japan. Meiji machines -- The American way of selling -- Selling and consuming modern life -- Resisting Yankee capitalism -- pt. 2. Sewing modernity in war and peace. War machines at home -- Mechanical phoenix -- A nation of dressmakers
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:0520950313
9780520950313
1280103876
9781280103872

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