Material women, 1750-1950 : consuming desires and collecting practices / edited by Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2009.

Format/Description:

Book
xx, 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subjects:

Women -- Social conditions.
Women consumers -- History.
Material culture -- History.

Contents:

Introduction : consumption as a gendered social practice / Beth Fowkes Tobin
"The things I so indispensably needed" : material objects as a reflection of Mary Shelley's life / Pamela Siska
Material women : the department-store fashion poster in Paris, 1880-1900 / Ruth E. Iskin
Nostalgic appetites : female desire and wartime rationing in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts and Noel Streatfeild's Saplings / Andrea Adolph
A touch of distinction : furnishing French aristocratic homes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Elizabeth C. Macknight
"Novel and ingenious" : innovative graphic arts in the women's magazines of the 1840s and the construction of middle-class taste / Cynthia Patterson
The woman's paradise : the American fantasy, home appliances, and consumer demand in liberation France / Rebecca J. Pulju
Talking points : advertising female telephone identity / Emily Bills
Trans-coding nationalism : subjectivity and military themes in Regency women's dress / Ellen Kennedy Johnson
"The beauty of her hands" : the glove and the making of the middle-class body / Ariel Beaujot
Made for Maharanis : aesthetics of courtly women in colonial princely India / Angma D. Jhala
Harmony and concealment : how Chinese women fashioned the Qipao in 1930s China / Wessie Ling
Women, clothing, and politics in Senegal in the 1940s-1950s / Dior Konaté
The duchess's shells : natural history collecting, gender, and scientific practice / Beth Fowkes Tobin
Woman of letters : Elizabeth Gaskell's autograph collection and victorian celebrity / Pamela Corpron Parker
The women of Liulichang : female collectors and bibliophiles in the late Qing / Shana J. Brown
Japanese objects in impressionist women's art : collecting culture and creating identity / Jennifer T. Criss
The female past and modernity : displaying women and things in New Zealand department stores, expositions, and museums, 1920s-1960s / Bronwyn Labrum.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Goggin, Maureen Daly.
Tobin, Beth Fowkes.

ISBN:

9780754665397 (hardback : alk. paper)
0754665399 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

426065867

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