The great strike -- The world of textile work : continuity and change -- Millworkers, socialism, and the labor movement -- A culture of textile production -- Workers as consumers -- Feminization and industrial expansion -- Expanding the consumer market -- The depression decade and the popular front

Introduction -- Speaking as working women and working as speaking women -- Arguing with the phallus, or the materialization of the psyche -- Visualities and materialities: the performativity of the female -- Managerial suit or writing about the visual chastity belt -- Intersectionality,...