The Sex of Things - Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective

"A rare pleasure. Rooting gender and consumption in the actions of people making their own history, these brilliant essays move from nineteenth-century pinups to the formation of gendered modernity. Once you've savored this volume, you'll never think of modern life in the same way again."—Temma Kaplan, author of Red City, Blue Period

List of contents

CONTRIBUTORS:
Susan Porter Benson
Sue Bowden
Rachel Bowlby
Erica Carter
Belinda Davis
Victoria de Grazia
Ellen Furlough
Anna R. Igra
Jennifer Jones
David Kuchta
Avner Offer
Kathy Peiss
Erika Rappaport
Abigail Solomon-Godeau

About the author

Victoria de Grazia is Professor of History and Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is the author of How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945 (California, 1992). Ellen Furlough is Associate Professor of History at Kenyon College and author of Consumer Cooperation in France (1991).

Summary

Features the essays that 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.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria (EDT)/ Furlough De Grazia, Victoria de Grazia, Victoria De Furlough Grazia
• Assisted by: Grazia Victoria De (Editor), Victoria de Grazia (Editor), de Grazia Victoria (Editor), Ellen Furlough (Editor), Victoria de Grazia (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.1996
• EAN: 9780520201972
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20197-2
• No. of pages: 443
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Gender studies, gender groups, General and world history