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Category : Dry-goods
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
The Dry Goods Reporter
Author: United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter
Author: National Drygoods Reporter and Drygoodsman, Combining Dry Goods Reporter, Chicago [and] the Drygoodsman, St. Louis
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Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Dry Goods Reporter and Midwest Merchant-economist
Author: The Dry Goods Reporter
Author: Dry Goods Reporter and Midwest Merchant-economist
Author: United States Economist, and Dry Goods Reporter
Author: United States Economist, Dry Goods Reporter, and Bank, Railroad and Commercial Chronicle
Author: When Ladies Go A-Thieving
Author: Elaine S. AbelsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195361180
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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 the interest 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 by psychiatrists and the adoption of this ideology of feminine weakness by retailers, newspapers, the general public, the accused women themselves, and even the courts reveals the way in which a gender analysis allowed proponents of consumer capitalism to mask its contradictions.
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