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Senorita Telefonista Max Apple and stories from some ofIn Senorita Telefonista Susie S. Porter recounts the dynamic role of telephone operators in labor organizing in early twentieth century Mexico City, taking us from switchboards to union halls and into the streets as working women fought for better wages and against sexual discrimination and harassment. The telephone operators' struggles reveal how bodily autonomy is historically contingent and constructed through the lived experiences of class. When