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Paris, along with New York, was one of the main centres of the fashion industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But although New York based garment workers were mobilized early in the twentieth century, Paris was the stage of vibrant revolutions and uprisings throughout the nineteenth century. As a consequence, French women workers were radicalized much earlier, creating a unique and unprecedented moment in both labour and feminist history.

Seamstresses were central figures in the socio-political and cultural events of nineteenth and early twentieth century France but their stories and political writings have remained marginalized and obscured. Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished documents from the industrial revolution, 'Sewing, Fighting and Writing' is a foucauldian genealogy of the Parisian seamstress. Looking at the assemblage of radical practices in work, politics and culture, it explores the constitution of the self of the seamstress in the era of early industrialization and revolutionary events and considers her contribution to the socio-political and cultural formations in modernity.

List of contents

Introduction - Charting lines of light: the Parisian seamstress / Chapter 1 - Adventures in a culture of thought: genealogies, narratives, process / Chapter 2 - Mapping the archive: mnemonic and imaginary technologies of the self / Chapter 3 - 'From my work you will know my name': materialising utopias / Chapter 4 - Feeling the world: love, gender and agonistic politics / Chapter 5 - Living, writing and imagining the revolution / Chapter 6 - Creativity as process: writing the self, rewriting history / Conclusion - Reassembling radical practices / Bibliography

About the author

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies, co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London, UK and co-editor of the journal Gender and Education.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Maria Tamboukou, Tamboukou Maria
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781783482450
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-245-0
• Series: Radical Cultural Studies; Radical Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political activism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Textile Industries, Apparel, garment and textile industries, Political activism / Political engagement