The gender and consumer culture reader
By: edited by Jennifer Scanlon.
Contributors: Scanlon, Jennifer, 1958-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Women consumers -- United States -- History; Consumers -- United States -- History; Consumption (Economics) -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Jewish women and the making of an American home / Andrew Heinze; title: "A new era of shopping": the promotion of women's pleasure in London's West End, 1909-1914 / Erika D. Rappaport; title: Lots of friends at the YMCA: rooming houses, cafeterias, and other gay social centers / George Chauncey; title: Do-it-yourself: constructing, repairing, and maintaining domestic masculinity / Steven M. Gelber; title: Archival material: Playboy's penthouse apartment; title: Reduced to images: American Indians in nineteenth-century advertising / Jeffrey Steele; title: Soft-soaping empire: commodity racism and imperial advertising / Anne McClintock; title: Lesbian chic: experimentation and repression in the 1920s / Lillian Faderman; title: Consumerism and the construction of Black female identity in twentieth-century America / Robert E. Weems, Jr.; title: Listening to khakis: what America's most popular pants tell us about the way guys think / Malcolm Gladwell; title: Archival material: Paramount pictures and Linit advertisements; title: Advertising women: the J. Walter Thompson company women's editorial department / Jennifer Scanlon; title: In spite of women: Esquire magazine and the construction of the male consumer / Kenon Breazeale; title: From town center to shopping center: the reconfiguration of community marketplaces in postwar America / Lizabeth Cohen; title: Narcissism as liberation / Susan J. Douglas; title: "Young t'ing is the name of the game": sexual dynamics in a Caribbean romantic fiction series / Jane Bryce; title: Archival material: New Yorker and Fortune cartoons; title: Shoplifting ladies / Elaine S. Abelson; title: "Charity girls" and city pleasures: historical notes on working-class sexuality, 1880-1920 / Kathy Peiss; title: The zoot-suit and style warfare / Stuart Cosgrove; title: Face the nation: race, nationalisms, and identities in Jamaican beauty pageants / Natasha B. Barnes; title: Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark; title: Archival material: Nobody makes a pass at me by Harold Rome and Among the things that use to be by Willie M. Coleman.