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The sex of things : gender and consumption in historical perspective
- Title
- The sex of things : gender and consumption in historical perspective / edited by Victoria de Grazia, with Ellen Furlough ; introductions by Victoria de Grazia.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
- Description
- x, 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other contributors
- De Grazia, Victoria. Furlough, Ellen, 1953-
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 390-409) and index.
- Contents
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- 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.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex differences. Social customs.
- ISBN
- 0520201973 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520201972 (pbk. : alk. paper)