| Description |
1 online resource (x, 433 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-409) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Changing consumption regimes: Introduction / Victoria de Grazia -- Coquettes and grisettes: women buying and selling in ancien régime Paris / Jennifer Jones -- Making of the self-made man: class, clothing, and English masculinity, 1688-1832 / David Kuchta -- Gendering of consumer practices in nineteenth-century France / Leora Auslander -- 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 -- 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Consumer behavior -- Sex differences -- History.
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Consumer behavior -- Sex differences. |
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History. |
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Consumer behavior. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- History.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics) |
| Indexed Term |
Consumer behaviour History |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
De Grazia, Victoria.
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Furlough, Ellen, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sex of things. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996 0520200349 (DLC) 95037354 (OCoLC)32924491 |
| ISBN |
9780520916777 (electronic book) |
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0520916778 (electronic book) |
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0585047715 (electronic book) |
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9780585047713 (electronic book) |
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