The sex of things : gender and consumption in historical perspective /
Gender and consumption in historical perspective
edited by Victoria de Grazia, with Ellen Furlough ; introductions by Victoria de Grazia.
- x, 433 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-409) and index.
Changing consumption regimes: Introduction / Coquettes and grisettes: women buying and selling in ancien régime Paris / The making of the self-made man: class, clothing, and English masculinity, 1688-1832 / The gendering of consumer practices in nineteenth-century France / The other side of Venus: the visual economy of feminine display / Establishing the modern consumer household: Introduction / "A husband and his wife's dresses": consumer credit and the debtor family in England, 1864-1914 / Male providerhood and the public purse: anti-desertion reform in the progressive era / Living on the margin: working-class marriages and family survival strategies in the United States, 1919-1941 / The technological revolution that never was: gender, class, and the diffusion of household appliances in interwar England / Empowering women as citizen-consumers: Introduction / Food scarcity and the empowerment of the female consumer in World War I Berlin / Making up, making over: cosmetics, consumer culture, and women's identity / Nationalizing women: the competition between fascist and commercial culture models in Mussolini's Italy / Deviantpleasures?: women, melodrama, and consumer nationalism in West Germany / Soft sell: marketing rhetoric in feminist criticism / Gender and consumption in historical perspective: a selected bibliography / Victoria de Grazia -- Jennifer Jones -- David Kuchta -- Leora Auslander -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Victoria de Grazia -- Erika Rappaport -- Anna R. Igra -- Susan Porter Benson -- Sue Bowden and Avner Offer -- Victoria de Grazia -- Belinda Davis -- Kathy Peiss -- Victoria de Grazia -- Erica Carter -- Rachel Bowlby -- Ellen Furlough. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3.