Sweated Work, Weak Bodies

Here is a tour-de-force: a specific case that illuminates not only central questions in labor and gender history, but also the methodological problem of writing after linguistic and gender turns.

- Eileen Boris (Hull Professor of WomenÆs Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Here is a tour-de-force: a specific case that illuminates not only central questions in labor and gender history, but also the methodological problem of writing after linguistic and gender turns.

- Eileen Boris (Hull Professor of WomenÆs Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara)

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is an impressive achievement. Blending the languages of gender and class, Bender movingly captures the meaning of the sweatshop for the home lives of immigrant workers, and demonstrates its power to shape their imaginations and their organizing strategies.

- Alice Kessler-Harris (author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizensh)

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies is an impressive achievement. Blending the languages of gender and class, Bender movingly captures the meaning of the sweatshop for the home lives of immigrant workers, and demonstrates its power to shape their imaginations and their organizing strategies.

- Alice Kessler-Harris (author of In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizensh)