Knitting Everyday Finery

Author: Mel Clark
Editor: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN: 9781570765278
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Originally published: New Zealand: David Bateman, 2012.

Knitting Gifts For Baby

Author: Mel Clark
Editor: Trafalgar Square
ISBN: 9781570765544
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A collection of over twenty knitting projects for babies. Includes guides for making baby clothes, hats, and small knit toys. Also includes a guide to buttons and yarns and techniques for knitting baby clothes and toys

Knitting America

Author: Susan M. Strawn
Editor: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760340110
Size: 15,91 MB
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Enhanced with more than three hundred images, a comprehensive history of knitting in America includes twenty historical knitting patterns.

Traditional Scandinavian Knitting

Author: Sheila McGregor
Editor: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486134164
Size: 12,87 MB
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This classic guide to the styles of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and the Faeroe Islands includes patterns for jerseys, gloves and mittens, stockings, and caps. 191 black-and-white and 20 color illustrations.

The Lady S Every Day Book By The Author Of Enquire Within Assisted By The Ed Of The Practical Housewife

Author: Robert Kemp Philp
Editor:
ISBN:
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Everyday Fashions Of The Fifties As Pictured In Sears Catalogs

Author: JoAnne Olian
Editor: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316912
Size: 17,21 MB
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One-piece strapless bathing suits and dresses with plunging necklines for women; business suits with wide lapels for men; bluejeans and plaid shirts for girls; and much more. Over 300 black-and-white illustrations.

Stories Behind Everyday Things

Author: Jane Polley
Editor: Readers Digest
ISBN: 9780895770684
Size: 12,18 MB
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Presents 300 articles containing little-known information about "things" that figure in everyday life, such as advertising, shoe polish, ketchup, pajamas, and zippers.

Family Of Women

Author: Annie Murray
Editor: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330535498
Size: 17,59 MB
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1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin lies encased in an iron lung, struck down by the killer disease, polio. Distraught at her side, her mother, Violet, wonders if this is her punishment - for Carol is the love child who should not have been born . . . Family of Women is the story of three generations of women: Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war. Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her. Torn from her longed for place at the grammar school, she gives up hoping for anything better. It takes a tragic love affair to make her question the limitations of her life and the secrets which haunt her family. Spanning more than half of the last century, Family of Women by Annie Murray is a story of one family - and of the joys, struggles and changes in women's lives.

The Way To Wealth And Poor Richard S Almanac

Author: Benjamin Franklin
Editor: Nayika Publishing
ISBN: 095595830X
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An Ordered Love

Author: Louis J. Kern
Editor: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620421
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An Ordered Love is the first detailed study of sex roles in the utopian communities that proposed alternatives to monogamous marriage: The Shakers (1779-1890), the Mormons (1843-90), and the Oneida Community (1848-79). The lives of men and women changed substantially when they joined one of the utopian communities. Louis J. Kern challenges the commonly held belief that Mormon polygamy was uniformly downgrading to women and that Oneida pantagamy and Shaker celibacy were liberating for them. Rather, Kern asserts that changes in sexual behavior and roles for women occurred in ideological environments that assumed women were inferior and needed male guidance. An elemental distrust of women denied the Victorian belief in their moral superiority, attacked the sanctity of the maternal role, and institutionalized the dominance of men over women. These utopias accepted the revolutionary idea that the pleasure bond was the essence of marriage. They provided their members with a highly developed theological and ideological position that helped them cope with the ambiguities and anxieties they felt during a difficult transitional stage in social mores. Analysis of the theological doctrines of these communities indicates how pervasive sexual questions were in the minds of the utopians and how closely they were related to both reform (social perfection) and salvation (individual perfection). These communities saw sex as the point at which the demands of individual selfishness and the social requirements of self-sacrifice were in most open conflict. They did not offer their members sexual license, but rather they established ideals of sexual orderliness and moral stability and sought to provide a refuge from the rampant sexual anxieties of Victorian culture. Kern examines the critical importance of considerations of sexuality and sexual behavior in these communities, recognizing their value as indications of larger social and cultural tensions. Using the insights of history, psychology, and sociology, he investigates the relationships between the individual and society, ideology and behavior, and thought and action as expressed in the sexual life of these three communities. Previously unused manuscript sources on the Oneida Community and Shaker journals and daybooks reveal interesting and sometimes startling information on sexual behavior and attitudes.