The sex of things

De Grazia, Victoria

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: The sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective

Editor:: De Grazia, Victoria

Scope:: 23 cm

Place of publication:: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1996

Language:: English

Subject:: Verbraucherverhalten Geschlechtsunterschied Geschlechterrolle

Note:: Literaturverz. S. 389 - 409

Topic:: E - History

Shelfmark:: E/D278

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

CONTENTS Hh. Male Providerhood and the Public Purse: Anti-Desertion Reform in the Progressive Era Anna R lgra ~~ 188 Living on the Margin: Working-Class Marriages and Family Survival Strategies in the United States, 1919-1941 Susan Porter Benson 212 3. The Technological Revolution That Never Was: Gender, Class, and the Diffusion of Household Appliances in Interwar England Sue Bowden and Avner Offer + 244 PART III + EMPOWERING WOMEN AS CITIZEN-CONSUMERS Introduction Victoria de Grazia , 275 0. Food Scarcity and the Empowerment of the Female Consumer in World War I Berlin Belinda Davis / 287 { (7. Making Up. Making Over: Cosmetics, Consumer Culture. and Women's Identity Kathy Peiss / 311 1. Nationalizing Women: The Competition between Fascist and Commercial Cultural Models in Mussolini's Italy Victoria de Grazia / 337 Deviant Pleasures: Women, Melodrama, and Consumer Nationalism in West Germany Erica Carter / 359 3. Soft Sell: Marketing Rhetoric in Feminist Criticism Rachel Bowlby / 381 GENDER AND CONSUMPTION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Ellen Furlough / 389 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS ART CREDITS / 413 INDEX / 417

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