Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture: Radical Cultural Studies book by Maria Tamboukou

Maria Tamboukou

ISBN 10: 1783482451 / ISBN 13: 9781783482450

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publi, 2015

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sewing, Fighting and Writing: Radical Practices in Work, Politics and Culture: Radical Cultural Studies book by Maria Tamboukou
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publi
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783482451
• ISBN 13: 9781783482450
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Craft Work

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Synopsis

A feminist genealogy of the industrial revolution Parisian seamstress, exploring her agentic intervention in the socio-cultural and political formations of modernity.

About the Author

Maria Tamboukou is professor of feminist studies at the University of East London and has held visiting research positions in a number of institutions. Her research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author and editor of 12 books and numerous journal articles. See the author’s website for more details on research projects and publications: www.tamboukou.org