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The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution Paperback – August 16 2006 by Marla R Miller Author

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife perpetually spinning sewing darning and quilting answering all of her familys textile needs

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye reveals the previously overlooked work of women in the clothing trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Though Miller grounds her study in the particulars of the upper Connecticut River valley she connects the local evidence to larger historical

The Needle’s Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needle’s Eye has twin goals to put skilled female craft workers into the story of American artisans in a changing economy and secondly to unravel the structures and hierarchies of working women and their customers Although Miller’s primary focus is on gownmakers and tailors for whom the period 17601830 was a kind of golden age of economic opportunity she does not overlook the lessspecialized lessskilled and lowerpaid seamstresses many of whom welcomed the chance for

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ Chapter 7 Women’s Artisanal Work in the Changing New England Marketplace pp 185210 In 1776 while a gathering of planters and businessmen in Philadelphia declared one revolution Adam Smith launched another

Project MUSE The Needle’s Eye Women and Work in the Age ~ Although Miller touches on the unremunerated sewing and quilting that women did within their families The Needle’s Eye is really a study of needlework as a paid craft and of the women who performed that work as craft artisans during the era of the American Revolution Indeed this latter point that needlewomen belong in the story of the early American craft tradition is the central theme of the book

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ » The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution full book Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Early American Artisanry Why Gender Matters Part I Chapter 1 Clothing and Consumers in Rural New England 17601810 Part I Chapter 2 Needle Trades in New England 17601810

The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution ~ The Needles Eye Women and Work in the Age of Revolution By Maria R Miller Amherst and Boston University of Massachusetts Press 2006 xiv plus 302 pp 2495 This is a hook that does justice to its subject

The needles eye women and work in the age of revolution ~ The needles eye women and work in the age of revolution Marla R Miller Among the enduring stereotypes of early American history has been the colonial Goodwife perpetually spinning sewing darning and quilting answering all of her familys textile needs