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Sewing, Fighting and Writing
Radical Practices in Work, Politics and CultureRadical Cultural Studies
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Verlag: | Rowman & Littlefield International |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 09.11.2015 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781783482467 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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Beschreibungen
<span><span>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.</span></span>
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<span><span>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 Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished documents from the industrial revolution,</span><span> ‘</span><span>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. </span></span>
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<span><span>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 Drawing on a wide range of published and unpublished documents from the industrial revolution,</span><span> ‘</span><span>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. </span></span>
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<span><span>A feminist genealogy of the industrial revolution Parisian seamstress, exploring her agentic intervention in the socio-cultural and political formations of modernity. </span></span>
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<span><span>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</span></span>
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<span><span>Maria Tamboukou</span><span> 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 </span><span>Gender and Education</span><span>. <br></span></span>
<span><span>Focuses on the radical practices of women workers, writers and revolutionaries from the industrial revolution period and explores their neglected contribution to the formation of modernity.</span></span>
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<span><span>Combines archival research with narrative analysis, drawing on a wide range of unpublished documents and untranslated publications. </span></span>
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<span><span>The theoretical framework brings together Foucault, Arendt and Whitehead to make an original contribution to contemporary debates in social and political theory.</span></span>
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<span><span>Four areas of radical practice are highlighted and discussed in their interrelation: work, love, agonistic politics and creativity through writing.</span></span>
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<span><span>Combines archival research with narrative analysis, drawing on a wide range of unpublished documents and untranslated publications. </span></span>
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<span><span>The theoretical framework brings together Foucault, Arendt and Whitehead to make an original contribution to contemporary debates in social and political theory.</span></span>
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<span><span>Four areas of radical practice are highlighted and discussed in their interrelation: work, love, agonistic politics and creativity through writing.</span></span>
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