Working girls : sex, taste, and reform in the Parisian garment trades, 1880-1919

Working girls : sex, taste, and reform in the Parisian garment trades, 1880-1919 / Patricia Tilburg.

This book takes the mythos of the Parisian midinette as its primary field of investigation, analyzing the plethora of fanciful commentary about female garment workers in the capital during the belle epoque, but demonstrating that this whimsical Parisian imaginary was a fantasy with political intenti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tilburg, Patricia A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Women clothing workers > France > Paris > History.
Women > Employment > France > Paris > History.
Clothing trade > France > Paris > History.
Clothing trade
Women clothing workers
Women > Employment
France > Paris
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • From Grisette to Midinette: the garment worker in French popular culture
  • "Without rival": workingwomen, regulation, and taste in the Belle Époque garment industry
  • "Notre petite amie": Charpentier's oeuvre de Mimi Pinson, 1900-1914
  • "An appetite to be pretty": garment workers, lunch reform, and the Parisian picturesque in the Belle Époque
  • "They are nothing but birdbrains!": the Midinette on strike, 1901-1919
  • Mimi Pinson goes to war: sex, taste, and the patrie, 1914-1918.

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