An innovative cultural analysis of female workers in Spanish literature and films from the late nineteenth century to the first three quarters of the twentieth century.
 

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Dismantling the Myth of Female Domesticity
1. The Castiza Working Woman: Regeneracionismo in Género Chico
2. Homebound Workers: The Reconfiguration of Bourgeois Domestic Space in Realism
3. Commodifying the Nation: The Store and the Shopgirl in Avant-Garde Literature
4. Working for Change during the Second Republic: A New Woman for the Nation in Conservative and Left-Wing Literature
5. Back Home? Counterdiscourses of Female Labor and Nationhood in Postwar Women’s Short Fiction
6. Spanish Women Are Different: Cinematic Anxieties of Female Work in Late Francoism 000
Epilogue: The Story Is Not Over
Notes
References
Index

Mar Soria is an assistant professor of Spanish at the University of Missouri.