A Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922

Author:   Cynthia Amnus
Publisher:   Texas Tech University Press
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9786611093365


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Format:   Electronic book text
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A Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922


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Dressmaking, considered a natural extension of womens 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 womens clothing, most were forced out of business. Coinciding with the exhibition Cynthia Amnus organized for the Cincinnati Art Museum, this work examines the nineteenth-century ideology of womens 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 Amnuss incisive study are essays by Anne Bissonnette on the eccentric tea gown, Marla Miller on the pitfalls of researching womens 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.

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Author:   Cynthia Amnus
Publisher:   Texas Tech University Press
Imprint:   Texas Tech University Press
ISBN:  

9786611093365


ISBN 10:   6611093362
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 January 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.

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