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Tea Rooms: Mujeres obreras

by Luisa Carnés

In 1930s Madrid, working-class women adjust their uniforms to begin another shift at an elegant tea room near Puerta del Sol. Carnés gives voice to veteran Antonia, young Marta hardened by poverty, and others whose labor sustains bourgeois comfort. A recovered feminist classic that illuminates the lives of women workers with dignity, precision, and revolutionary clarity.

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