{"product_id":"working-girls-sex-taste-and-reform-in-the-parisian-garment-trades-1880-1919-9780198841173","title":"Working Girls: Sex, Taste, and Reform in the Parisian Garment Trades, 1880-1919","description":"As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and social change.\u003cbr\u003eNostalgia about a certain kind of France was written onto the bodies of the capital's couture workers throughout French pop culture from the 1880s to the 1930s. And the \u003cem\u003emidinettes\u003c\/em\u003e-as these women were called- were written onto the geography of Paris itself, by way of festivals, monuments, historic\u003cbr\u003epreservation, and guide books. The idealized working Parisienne stood in for, at once, the superiority of French taste and craft, and the political (and sexual) subordination of French women and labour. But she was also the public face of more than 80,000 real working women whose demands for better\u003cbr\u003elabour conditions were inflected, distorted, and, in some cases, amplified by this ubiquitous Romantic type in the decades straddling World War I. \u003cem\u003eWorking Girls\u003c\/em\u003e bridges cultural histories of the Parisian imaginary and histories of French labour, and puts them in raucous dialogue with one another: a\u003cbr\u003eletter by a nineteen-year-old seamstress, a speech by a government minister; a frothy Parisian guide by a bon vivant, the minutes of a union meeting; a bawdy cafe-concert song, a policy brief on garment working conditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia Tilburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198841173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Tilburg, \u003cem\u003eJames B. Duke Professor of History and Gender \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies, Davidson College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatricia Tilburg is James B. Duke Professor of History and Gender \u0026amp; Sexuality Studies at Davidson College. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eColette's Republic: Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914\u003c\/em\u003e (2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39959073194099,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":86.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_9b3ffe0f-6636-485d-bd9b-36853d5a37d8.jpg?v=1648740750","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/working-girls-sex-taste-and-reform-in-the-parisian-garment-trades-1880-1919-9780198841173","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}