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Shopping For Pleasure
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Author : Erika Rappaport
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Shopping For Pleasure written by Erika Rappaport and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with History categories.
In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged and discouraged women's enjoyment of public life and particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- and upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women's magazines, clubs, teashops, restaurants, and the theater as interwoven sites of consumption, Shopping for Pleasure uncovers how a new female urban culture emerged before and after the turn of the twentieth century. Moving beyond the question of whether shopping promoted or limited women's freedom, the author draws on diverse sources to explore how business practices, legal decisions, and cultural changes affected women in the market. In particular, she focuses on how and why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban woman, in some cases defining themselves as instrumental to civic improvement and women's emancipation. Rappaport also considers such influences as merchandizing strategies, credit policies, changes in public transportation, feminism, and the financial balance of power within the home. Shopping for Pleasure is thus both a social and cultural history of the West End, but on a broader scale it reveals the essential interplay between the rise of consumer society, the birth of modern femininity, and the making of contemporary London.
Shopping For Pleasure
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Author : Erika Diane Rappaport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
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Shopping Around
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Author : Hilary Radner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Shopping Around written by Hilary Radner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Art categories.
Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are examined, exposing the fact that women "read" within a complex and conflicted cultural arena characterized by a significant intertextuality that multiply defines "femininity." Shopping Around raises these issues in the context of everyday cultural practices such as applying make-up, reading magazines, watching television, and working-out, providing a unique introduction to postmodern feminist and cultural theory.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Shopping For Pleasure written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Shopping centers categories.
The Shopping Experience
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Author : Pasi Falk
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 1997-09-29
The Shopping Experience written by Pasi Falk and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-29 with Social Science categories.
This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing tone of many contemporary discussions of shopping and consumption. It also contains an appendix which gives a brief history and selected literature of shopping.
Latex And Lingerie
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Author : Merl Storr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-07
Latex And Lingerie written by Merl Storr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Business & Economics categories.
Around 4000 Ann Summers parties are held in Britain every week. This study investigates what really goes on at these gatherings. It draws on both participant observation and in-depth interviews with party organizers.
A Cultural History Of Shopping
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Author : Jon Stobart
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022
A Cultural History Of Shopping written by Jon Stobart and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Shopping categories.
Shopping emerged as a special pleasure and problem during the period between the revolutionary upheavals of the late eighteenth century and the opening salvoes of the Great War. New shops, new products, new class and gender ideologies, new standards of comfort and hygiene, and rising living standards for some meant that people, especially women, spent more time shopping and engaging in consumer-oriented activities beyond the walls of the shop. At the same time, social commentators, local and national authorities, economists and many husbands became concerned about the 'dangers' of shopping, believing that the department store was emancipating women and destroying society in the process. This volume explores shopping in the nineteenth century as a varied and embedded social, political, economic and cultural activity. It draws out the continuities with earlier periods as well as examining how the department store came to be seen as both symbol and generator of profound economic, social and cultural change. A Cultural History of Shopping in the Age of Revolution and Empire presents an overview of the period with themes addressing practices and processes; spaces and places; shoppers and identities; luxury and everyday; home and family; visual and literary representations; reputation, trust and credit; and governance, regulation and the state. Book jacket.
Viewing Pleasure And Being A Showgirl
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Author : Alison J. Carr
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-19
Viewing Pleasure And Being A Showgirl written by Alison J. Carr and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-19 with Social Science categories.
Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those who watch them, to challenge the narrowness of representations and discussions around what has been termed ‘sexualisation’ and ‘the gaze’. An account of the experience of being ‘looked at’, the book raises questions of how the showgirl is represented, the nature of the pleasure that she elicits and the suspicion that surrounds it, and what this means for feminism and the act of looking. An embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by feminist critique) that images of women are linked to selling and that women’s bodies have been commodified in capitalist culture, raising the question of whether this enables particular bodies – those of glamorous women on display – to become scapegoats for our deeper anxieties about consumerism.
The Thoughtful Dresser
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Author : Linda Grant
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-04-20
The Thoughtful Dresser written by Linda Grant and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-20 with Health & Fitness categories.
“You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women. Yet, clothes matter, whether you are interested in fashion or not, because how we choose to dress defines who we are. How we look and what we wear tells a story. Some stories are simple, like the teenager trying to fit in, or the woman turning fifty renouncing invisibility. Some are profound, like that of the immigrant who arrives in a new country and works to blend in by changing the way she dresses, or of the woman whose hat saved her life in Nazi Germany. The Thoughtful Dresser celebrates the pleasure of adornment and is an elegant meditation on our relationship with what we wear and the significance of clothes as the most intimate but also public expressions of our identity.
An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures
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Author : Clarice Lispector
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-04-06
An Apprenticeship Or The Book Of Pleasures written by Clarice Lispector and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-06 with Fiction categories.
'One of the very great writers of the last century' Guardian 'Lispector had an ability to write as though no one had ever written before' Colm Tóibín 'He'd wait for her, she knew that now. Until she learned' Lóri yearns for love yet is scared of herself, and of connecting with another human. When she meets Ulisses, a Professor of Philosophy, she is forced to confront her fears. As both of them will learn, to be worthy of another person, they must first be fully themselves. The book of which Clarice Lispector said, 'I humanized myself', An Apprenticeship is about the ultimate unknowability of the other in a relationship, and what it means to love and be loved. Translated by Stefan Tobler Edited by Benjamin Moser with an Afterword by Sheila Heti