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The sex of things gender and consumption in historical perspective
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- ISBN: 9780585047713 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0585047715 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0520916778 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780520916777 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 433 pages) : illustrations
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electronic resource - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-409) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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