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Costume Society of America Ser.: A Separate Sphere by Cynthia Amnéus (2003, Hardcover)

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Dressmaking, considered a natural extension of women's proper work in the home, was a common and lucrative employment for women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It afforded creative expression, prestige in the community, and even the possibility of financial independence. Yet as entrepreneurs, dressmakers faced unique business pressures, and with the advent of department stores and widespread mass production of women's clothing, most were forced out of business. Coinciding with the exhibition Cynthia Amneus organized for the Cincinnati Art Museum, this work examines the nineteenth-century ideology of women's separate sphere, the early feminist movement, women in the workplace, and dressmakers as artisans and professionals. More than 140 stunning custom-made garments, historical photographs, and dressmakers' labels document the superb artistic and technical skill of the women who produced fashionable dress in Cincinnati from 1877 to 1922. Bracketing Amneus's incisive study are essays by Anne Bissonnette on the eccentric tea gown, Marla Miller on the pitfalls of researching women's cultural work, and Shirley Teresa Wajda on the dressmakers' wealthy clientele. In all, A Separate Sphere offers a careful look into the lives of women struggling with ideological boundaries. Chronicling choices made by and imposed on both working-class women and their affluent counterparts, it reveals how these women managed to enhance their prescribed sphere for themselves and for the community at large. Anne Bissonnette is costume curator at Kent State University Museum. Her most recent exhibition is The Hours of the Woman of Leisure. Marla Miller teaches history at the University ofMassachusetts, Amherst. Her book on craftswomen in rural New England, 1740-1820, is forthcoming from the University of Massachusetts Press. Shirley Teresa Wajda teaches history and American studies at Kent State University. Her book "Social Currency: Commercial Portrait Photography and the Fashioning of an American Middle Class, 1839-1889" is forthcoming from Temple University Press.

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Texas Tech University Press
ISBN-10
0896725073
ISBN-13
9780896725072
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2483021

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Author
Cynthia Amnéus
Publication Name
Separate Sphere
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Series
Costume Society of America Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
230 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
8.8in
Item Weight
45.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Tt504.4.A48 2003
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Fashion, American / General, Women's Studies
Lccn
2003-004015
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Art, Crafts & Hobbies, Social Science

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