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Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
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Description for Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century
Paperback. Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historicist ideas, Kowaleski-Wallace suveys eighteenth century literary texts, material object, and cultural events to illuminate the ways in which women are both controlled by and empowered through images of consumption. Num Pages: 192 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; DSB; HBTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 10. Weight in Grams: 317.
Consuming Subjects is an insightful exploration of the origin of the modern idea of women as shoppers. Kowaleski-Wallace considers the origins of current ideas about women and consumerism to call into question the "natural" link between women and the commodities they buy. While previous scholars have posited the nineteenth-century department store and arcade as the crucial place for understanding the emergence of the female consumer, Kowaleski-Wallace argues that the eighteenth century yields a keener understanding by allowing us to view the foundations of contemporary cultural practices. Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historical ideas, she surveys ... Read more
Consuming Subjects is an insightful exploration of the origin of the modern idea of women as shoppers. Kowaleski-Wallace considers the origins of current ideas about women and consumerism to call into question the "natural" link between women and the commodities they buy. While previous scholars have posited the nineteenth-century department store and arcade as the crucial place for understanding the emergence of the female consumer, Kowaleski-Wallace argues that the eighteenth century yields a keener understanding by allowing us to view the foundations of contemporary cultural practices. Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historical ideas, she surveys ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
198
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231105798
SKU
V9780231105798
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Ref
99-15
About Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace is assistant professor of English at Boston College. She is author of Their Fathers' Daughters: Hannah Moore, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity, and coeditor, with Patricia Yaeger, of Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy.
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