{"product_id":"fabricating-consumers-19-andrew-gordon-9780520267855","title":"Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan Volume 19","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520267850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520267855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/06\/2012 pg. 20","brand":"Andrew Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056217649407,"sku":"9780520267855","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5056231d-5240-4b48-8897-76d4d0337339.jpg?v=1685040148","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fabricating-consumers-19-andrew-gordon-9780520267855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}