The feminist story behind the invention of the brown paper bag

Behind the humble brown paper bag lies an unexpected case study of gender politics. The American inventor Margaret Knight left school at around the age of ten to work in a cotton mill in New England. After she witnessed a factory worker injured by a loose …
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