Crime, gender, and consumer culture in nineteenth century England
by
 
Whitlock, Tammy C., 1967-

Title
: 
Crime, gender, and consumer culture in nineteenth century England

Author
: 
Whitlock, Tammy C., 1967-

ISBN
: 
9780754652076

Personal Author
: 
Whitlock, Tammy C., 1967-

Publication Information
: 
Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., 2005.

Physical Description
: 
xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series
: 
The history of retailing and consumption

Series Title
: 
The history of retailing and consumption

Contents
: 
1. Ready money only : small shops and new retail methods -- 2. Vanity fairs : the growth of bazaars and fancy fairs -- 3. 'Mothers beware!' : fraud by the retailer -- 4. The culture of fraud and the female consumer -- 5. Shoplifting in early nineteenth-century England -- 6. Mrs. McGregor's sealskin jacket : female frauds and the art of buying without paying -- 7. Solving the problem of the criminal consumer : women and kleptomania.

Abstract
: 
"Focusing on retailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. Using trial records, advertisements, newspaper reports, literature, and popular ballads, it analyses the rise, criticism, and entrenchment of consumerism by looking at retail changes around the period 1800-1880 and society's responses to them." "With its interdisciplinary approach drawing on social and economic history, gender studies, cultural studies and the history of crime, this study asks questions regarding the nature of consumer culture and how society reacts to the challenges this creates."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
: 
Retail trade -- England -- History -- 19th century.
 
Consumption (Economics) -- England -- History -- 19th century.
 
Women consumers -- England -- History -- 19th century.
 
Consumer behavior -- England -- Sex differences -- History -- 19th century.
 
Crime -- England -- History -- 19th century.

Geographic Term
: 
England -- Social life and customs -- History -- 19th century.

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004016884.html


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