Patricia Tilburg

Working Girls

Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919

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Produktbeschreibung

Working Girls offers a cultural history of the women of the Parisian garment trades as read by French entertainment and popular culture, labour reformers, and the women themselves, bridging the divide between the cultural history of the Parisian imaginary and the history of the French working classes and national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780198841173
• ISBN-10: 0198841175
• Artikelnr.: 57010706

Autorenporträt

Patricia Tilburg is James B. Duke Professor of History and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. She is the author of Colette's Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914 (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: From Grisette to Midinette: The Garment Worker in French Popular
Culture
* 2: 'Without Rival': Workingwomen, Regulation, and Taste in the belle
époque Garment Industry
* 3: 'Notre Petite Amie': Charpentier's Oeuvre de Mimi Pinson,
1900-1914
* 4: 'An Appetite to Be Pretty': Garment workers, lunch reform, and the
Parisian picturesque in the belle époque
* 5: 'They are nothing but birdbrains!': The Midinette on strike,
1901-1919
* 6: Mimi Pinson Goes to War: Sex, Taste, and the Patrie, 1914-1918
* Conclusion