ACLS Humanities E-Book: Ladies of labor, girls of adventure: working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the turn of the twentieth century

Ladies of labor, girls of adventure: working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the turn of the twentieth century

Enstad, Nan.

Year: c1999.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mud in Our French Heels

1. Cheap Dresses and Dime Novels: The First Commodities for Working Women

2. Ladies of Labor: Fashion, Fiction, and Working Women's Culture

3. Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the "Rational Girl Striker"

4. Ladies and Orphans: Women Invent Themselves as Strikers in 1909

5. Movie-Struck Girls: Motion Pictures and Consumer Subjectivities

Conclusion: A Place to Dream

Notes

Index

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Title:

Ladies of labor, girls of adventure : working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the turn of the twentieth century Nan Enstad.

Author:

Enstad, Nan

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2008
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Ladies of labor, girls of adventure : working women, popular culture, and labor politics at the turn of the twentieth century Nan Enstad.
Enstad, Nan
New York: Columbia University Press, c1999.

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Subject Headings:

• Working class women -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Women consumers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Fashion -- United States -- History -- 20th century

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