The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective 1st Edition by Victoria De Grazia, Ellen Furlough ISBN 9780520916777 0520916778

The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective 1st Edition by Victoria De Grazia, Ellen Furlough – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9780520916777 ,0520916778
Full download The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 0520916778
ISBN 13: 9780520916777
Author: Victoria De Grazia, Ellen Furlough

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 States and Europe.

Covering a period of two centuries, the essays range from Marie Antoinette’s Paris to the burgeoning cosmetics culture of mid-century America. They deal with topics such as blue-collar workers’ survival strategies in the interwar years, the anxieties of working-class consumers, and the efforts of the state to define women’s—especially wives’ and mothers’—consumer identity. Generously illustrated, this volume also includes extensive introductions and a comprehensive annotated bibliography. Drawing on social, economic, and art history as well as cultural studies, it provides a rich context for the current discourse around consumption, particularly in relation to feminist discussions of gender.

The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective 1st Edition Table of contents:

PART ONE Changing Consumption Regimes

ONE Coquettes and Grisettes Women Buying and Selling in Ancien Régime Paris

TWO The Making of the Self-Made Man Class, Clothing, and English Masculinity, 1688-1832

THREE The Gendering of Consumer Practices in Nineteenth-Century France

FOUR The Other Side of Venus The Visual Economy of Feminine Display

PART TWO Establishing the Modern Consumer Household

FIVE “A Husband and His Wife’s Dresses” Consumer Credit and the Debtor Family in England, 1864-1914

SIX Male Providerhood and the Public Purse

SEVEN Living on the Margin Working-Class Marriages and Family Survival Strategies in the United States, 1919-1941

EIGHT The Technological Revolution That Never Was Gender, Class, and the Diffusion of Household Appliances in Interwar England

PART THREE Empowering Women as Citizen-Consumers

NINE Food Scarcity and the Empowerment of the Female Consumer in World War I Berlin

TEN Making Up, Making Over Cosmetics, Consumer Culture, and Women’s Identity

ELEVEN Nationalizing Women The Competition between Fascist and Commercial Cultural Models in Mussolini’s Italy

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

THIRTEEN Soft Sell Marketing Rhetoric in Feminist Criticism

Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective A Selected Bibliography

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ART CREDITS

INDEX

 

People also search for The Sex of Things Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective 1st Edition:

    
what is the relationship between gender and society
    
the sex of a person depends on
    
the sex of the baby
    
the sex of the offspring is determined
    
what is the sex of the individual