Shopping for Pleasure. Women in the making of London's West End
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- Author(s) Rappaport, Erika D
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2000
- Pages 323pp; illus
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Place Published Princeton NJ
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:
Scholarly account. Deals with the role of middle and upper class women in the evolution of shopping in London's West End and also, more notably, the significance for women of shopping as a leisure activity - eg focuses on 'how and why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban women ...'. Has sections: 'The halls of temptation - the universal provider and the pleasure of suburbia'; 'The trials of consumption - marriage, law and women's credit'; 'Resting places for women wayfarers - feminism and the comforts of the public sphere'; 'Metropolitan journeys - shopping, travelling and reading the West End'; 'A new era of shopping - an American department store in Edwardian London' [Selfridges]; 'Acts of consumption - musical comedy and the desire of exchange'