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Journal of women's history, 2020-04, Vol.32 (1), p.135-140
Ort / Verlag
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In her important 1999 book, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, the historian Nan Enstad pushed scholars to recognize that the young women who took part in militant labor activism and strikes were also "movie-struck girls," joyfully flaunting their newest fashions. Clothing choices and cinematic fantasies that seemed frivolous, while certainly not intended to foment rebellion, actually played a part in encouraging young women to think of themselves as ladies, as worthy of the militant labor demands they made. Enstad's book challenged the prevailing idea that there had been two sets of young women—one that enjoyed the pleasures of consumer culture, the other that protested for better working conditions— and it insisted that historians pay attention to linkages between consumer culture and labor activism. These relationships may not always be obvious, are usually complex, and can frequently seem contradictory. Enstad ended with a plea for new scholarship to take up her call: "We need new political narratives," she wrote, "to help us perceive languages of class, gender, and race that we may not otherwise recognize as such."