Consuming Subjects. Women, shopping and business in the eighteenth century
Details:
- Author(s) Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1997
- Pages 185pp; illus
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Place Published New York NY
Topics:
- Name Consumption, consumerism & associated ethics
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Explores ideas about women and consumerism locating the origins of this not in the 19th but in the 18th century when shopping became gendered and 'women's bodies became configured in relation to consumerism'. Structured in three sections: 'The tea table'; 'Shopping'; 'Business'. 'Consuming Subjects is concerned with eighteenth-century literary texts; with social spaces like the tea table; and with material objects like porcelain and fine china... [It] links the rise of shopping to the appearance of modern pornography; like pornography, shopping embodies a cultural fantasy, claiming to locate and control female 'pleasure'.'