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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
A Shoppers' Paradise examines the incorporation of women consumers into public space and public culture. The site is Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century--when the city, rising like a phoenix after the Great Fire, became a center of debate over capitalist urbanism. The book explores the new practices of public consumption that monied women pursued on the streets of the city's burgeoning retail district and in the restaurants, hotels, department stores, and theaters built by entrepreneurs who invited their patronage. It also brings to light the conflict evoked by ladies' public presence, as city officials, clergymen, and influential industrialists responded to their conspicuous new habits of consuming in an urban public sphere that had once been the preserve of men. At stake, the book demonstrates, were competing visions of urban commerce, the place of women, and the cultural legitimacy of new forms of consumption. These conflicts, over gender and space, shaped the creation of a built environment and cultural norms that upheld women's consumption and sustained the rise of American consumer capitalism.-- Provided by publisher. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Monied women and the downtown of the 1890s -- The hoopskirt war of 1893 -- Consumer rights and the theater hat problem -- Tippling ladies and public pleasure -- Mashers, prostitutes, and shopping ladies -- The traffic of women. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women consumers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
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Women consumers. |
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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History. |
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Shopping -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
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Shopping. |
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Purchasing power -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
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Purchasing power. |
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Retail trade -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
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Retail trade. |
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Loop (Chicago, Ill.) -- History.
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Economic conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing -- General. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. |
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Economic history. |
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Illinois -- Chicago -- Loop. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Editions: |
Revision of: Remus, Emily Ann. Making of the consumer city: Gender, space, and class in Chicago, 1871-1914. 2014 9781321224931 (OCoLC)921284532 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Remus, Emily, 1984- Shoppers' paradise. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674987272 (DLC) 2018040566 (OCoLC)1057732483 |
| ISBN |
9780674240292 (electronic book) |
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0674240294 (electronic book) |
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9780674240315 (electronic book) |
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0674240316 (electronic book) |
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9780674987272 |
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0674987276 |
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