Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective

Name: Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective
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ISBN: 9780520201972

ISBN-10: 0520201973

ISBN-13: 9780520201972

Edition: 1996

Authors: Victoria de Grazia, Ellen Furlough

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This volume brings together the most innovative historical work on the conjoined themes of gender and consumption. In thirteen pioneering essays, some of the most important voices in the field consider how Western societies think about and use goods, how goods shape female, as well as male, identities, how labor in the family came to be divided between a male breadwinner and a female consumer, and how fashion and cosmetics shape women's notions of themselves and the society in which they live. Together these essays represent the state of the art in research and writing about the development of modern consumption practices, gender roles, and the sexual division of labor in both the United…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/2/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 443
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History and James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction




Coquettes and Grisettes: Women Buying and Selling in Ancien Regime 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




"A Husband and His Wife's Dresses": Consumer Credit and the Debtor Family in England, 1861-1914




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




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 Cultural Models in Mussolini's Italy




Deviant Pleasures? Women, Melodrama, and Consumer Nationalism in West Germany




Soft Sell: Marketing Rhetoric in Feminist Criticism



Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective: A Selected Bibliography



Notes on Contributors


Art Credits


Index