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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: De Grazia, Victoria, Furlough, Ellen, 1953-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Subjects:
Börngen, ...
Manfred Mann
Consumer behavior > Sex differences > History.
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > History.
Sex factors in disease.
Sex Factors
Consommateurs > Comportement > Différences entre sexes > Histoire.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > Research.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Sex factors in disease
Consumer behavior > Sex differences
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects
Geschlechterrolle
Verbraucherverhalten
Mode.
Sekseverschillen.
Consumptiepatroon.
Consommateurs > Attitudes > Histoire.
Consommation > Sociologie > Histoire.
Consommation > Différences entre sexes > Histoire.
Consumer behaviour > History
History
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.

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