Isbn: 9781783482450 - sewing, fighting and writing: radical practices in work, politics and culture (radical cultural studies) (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fine.

Softcover. Zustand: Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Taking the judge's final sarcastic remark as my starting point, in this book I want to explore a world of multiple 'ands' in women workers' lives. particularly focusing on the extraordinary figure of the Parisian seamstress. her passions, her actions and their effects on the social, political and cultural formations of modernity. 'More than a woman worker, a seamstress is part of a social and cultural enterprise that we have come to consider distinctively feminine', Judith Coffin has argued in her influential study on the politics of women's work in the Parisian garment trades (1996, 19). But apart from her distinct position in the history and political economy of women's work, the seamstress is a well-recognized cultural image, mostly depicted as a destitute figure to be pitied and protected: she has motivated a range of historical and sociopoliti- cal studies that span more than two centuries; she has been sung in popular culture and has inspired novels, poems, paintings and even operas. But she has mostly been the object of study-the social probl. …

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 235 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. A feminist genealogy of the industrial revolution Parisian seamstress, exploring her agentic intervention in the socio-cultural and political formations of modernity. Series: Radical Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 246 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; 3JJ; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPW; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 227 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …