When Ladies Go A-Thieving Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store

Name: When Ladies Go A-Thieving Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store
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ISBN: 9780195071429

ISBN-10: 0195071425

ISBN-13: 9780195071429

Edition: 1992

Authors: Elaine S. Abelson

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This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in theinterest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and plead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. The invention of kleptomania…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/9/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



For Hirschel


Acknowledgments


Ladies, Don't Go Thieving


Introduction



Urban Women and the Emergence of Shopping



The World of the Store



The Two-Way Mirror



Invisible Authority



The Dilemmas of Detection



Shoplifting Ladies



Disposition Shady, but a Perfect Lady""""""""


Epilogue


A Note on Sources


Notes


Index