Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema

Barbara Mennel is an associate professor of film studies in the Departments of English and of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Florida. Her books include The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature and Queer Cinema: Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys.

"By zooming out to include multiple countries and contexts and by zooming in on individual films about women workers, Mennel makes a strong case that European cinema has something important to say about gender and the economy." --Feminist German Studies"Women at Work offers us a rich archive of cinematic depictions of female labor . . . It is to the credit of Mennel's sweeping cinematic analysis of the present that we now have a better understanding of not only the work women do across the continent but also the variety of new images European cinema has been offering us." --German Studies Review"Highly recommended." --Choice

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Specter of Domesticity2. Precarious Work in Feminist Film3. Heritage Cinema of Industrial Labor4. Voice in the Cinema of Labor Migration5. Care Work and the Suspicious Gesture6. Reproductive Labor in the Age of Biotechnology7. Crisis CinemaConclusionNotesReferencesFilm IndexGeneral Index