The sex of things : gender and consumption in historical perspective /
For centuries, women have been caricatured as consummate shoppers, relegated to provisioning the household, and fetishized as objects of advertising. This wide-ranging volume of thirteen original essays illuminates the development of modern consumption practices, gender roles, and the sexual divisio...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1996.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Changing consumption regimes: Introduction / Victoria de Grazia
- Coquettes and grisettes: women buying and selling in ancien régime Paris / Jennifer Jones
- The making of the self-made man: class, clothing, and English masculinity, 1688-1832 / David Kuchta
- The gendering of consumer practices in nineteenth-century France / Leora Auslander
- The other side of Venus: the visual economy of feminine display / Abigail Solomon-Godeau
- pt. 2. Establishing the modern consumer household: Introduction / Victoria de Grazia
- "A husband and his wife's dresses": consumer credit and the debtor family in England, 1864-1914 / Erika Rappaport
- Male providerhood and the public purse: anti-desertion reform in the progressive era / Anna R. Igra
- Living on the margin: working-class marriages and family survival strategies in the United States, 1919-1941 / Susan Porter Benson
- The technological revolution that never was: gender, class, and the diffusion of household appliances in interwar England / Sue Bowden and Avner Offer
- pt. 3. Empowering women as citizen-consumers: Introduction / Victoria de Grazia
- Food scarcity and the empowerment of the female consumer in World War I Berlin / Belinda Davis
- Making up, making over: cosmetics, consumer culture, and women's identity / Kathy Peiss
- Nationalizing women: the competition between fascist and commercial culture models in Mussolini's Italy / Victoria de Grazia
- Deviantpleasures?: women, melodrama, and consumer nationalism in West Germany / Erica Carter
- Soft sell: marketing rhetoric in feminist criticism / Rachel Bowlby
- Gender and consumption in historical perspective: a selected bibliography / Ellen Furlough.