The sex of things : gender and consumption in historical perspective / edited by Victoria de Grazia, with Ellen Furlough ; introductions by Victoria de Grazia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-409) and index.

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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