TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Grazia,Victoria
AU  - Furlough,Ellen
TI  - The sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective 
SN  - 0520200349
AV  - HF5415.32 .S49 1996
U1  - 658.834081 23
PY  - 1996///]
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Consumer behavior
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - History
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Social aspects
N1  - 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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