The Sex of Things
Subtitle: Gender and Consumption in Historical Perspective
Contributors: Victoria de Grazia (Editor); Ellen Furlough (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: August 2, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9780520201972
Subjects: Cultural studies; Gender Studies; Social history; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; World history: from c 1900 -; Consumer Behavior - General; Business & Economics; Social aspects; Business/Economics; Sex differences; History; Marketing - Research; History / General; Consumer behavior; Consumption (Economics)
First sentence: The essays in the first section locate the origins of modern ways of relating consumption to gender in the long transition from aristocratic to bourgeois society.