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  title info:
    title: Working girls
    sub title: sex, taste, and reform in the Parisian garment trades, 1880-1919
  name:
    name part: Tilburg, Patricia A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations
  abstract: 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 intention. This narrative of Parisian working-class femininity defined significant aspects of French popular culture, philanthropy, and labor reform from the fin de siecle through World War I, and became an essential means of representing and coping with the early twentieth-century encounter between labor and modern capitalism. From the 1880s through the Great War, nostalgia about a certain kind of France was written onto the bodies of these women across French popular culture. The attractive, single young garment worker with a ready smile and inimitable Parisian taste was featured in countless novels, films, songs, social commentary, and even reform campaigns from the era as an inescapable urban type. She stood in for, at once, the superiority of French taste and craft, and the political and sexual subordination of French women and labor. The midinette was written onto the geography of Paris, by way of festivals, monuments, historic preservation, and guide books. She was also the public face of tens of thousands of real workingwomen whose demands for better labor conditions were modulated, distorted, and, in some cases, amplified by this ubiquitous Romantic type. This book reveals the way that the figure of the midinette inflected labor policy, reform efforts, and the daily lives of Paris's workingwomen.
  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.
  note: Patricia Tilburg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Women clothing workers
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Employment
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Clothing trade
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Travailleuses du vêtement
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
  subject:
    topic: France
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Modern
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: Women's Studies
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Clothing trade
  subject:
    topic: Women clothing workers
  subject:
    topic: Women
    topic: Employment
  subject:
    geographic: France
    geographic: Paris
  classification: HD6073.C62 T55 2019
  classification: 331.4/8870944361
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Working girls
    name:
      name part: Tilburg, Patricia A.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2019]
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1100009518
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  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 190608
    record change date: 20260319180934.6
    record identifier: in00005717409
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng