"An exploration of Edgar Degas's laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women's work in the nineteenth century."-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Degas and the laundress / Britany Salsbury -- Degas on French textiles, the transatlantic cotton trade, and the word of ironing / Michelle Foa -- The skillful, the social, and the scurrilous: the imagery of the laundress in naturalist painting / Richard Thomson -- Putting people in their place: class and gender in Degas's Paris / Charles Sowerwine -- Working-class women, alcohol, and Degas's Women Ironing / Gretchen Schultz -- Idyll to industry: infrastructures of cleanliness in nineteenth-century France / Aleksandra Bursac -- The stench of the people: on the mania for Émile Zola's L'Assommoir / Claire White -- Plates / Britany Salsbury -- Appendixes -- Catalogue raisonné of Degas's laundress works / Britany Salsbury -- Chronology: Degas's life and the Parisian laundry industry, 1785-1919 / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse -- Writings from Degas's time about his laundress works / Britany Salsbury and Jillian Kruse.