Sewing, Fighting and Writing

Sewing, Fighting and Writing

Sewing, Fighting and Writing

Maria Tamboukou

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2015
Materia
Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9781783482450
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A feminist genealogy of the industrial revolution Parisian seamstress, exploring her agentic intervention in the socio-cultural and political formations of modernity.

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