19th century japan
19th century women
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fashion and clothing
female consumer
history of anthropology
history of capitalism
history of fashion
japan social history
japanese class structure
japanese females
japanese history
japanese role of women
japanese women
middle class
modern japan
sewing machine history
socioeconomic change
western dress
women in workplace
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- ISBN 9780520267855
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Andrew Gordon is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University. His previous books include Labor and Imperial Democracy in Japan (UC Press) and A Modern History of Japan.
