Material women, 1750-1950
Subtitle: consuming desires and collecting practices
By: Maureen Goggin and Beth Tobin.
Contributors: Goggin, Maureen Daly.; Tobin, Beth Fowkes.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780754665397
Subjects: Women -- Social conditions; Women consumers -- History; Material culture -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : consumption as a gendered social practice / Beth Fowkes Tobin; title: "The things I so indispensably needed" : material objects as a reflection of Mary Shelley's life / Pamela Siska; title: Material women : the department-store fashion poster in Paris, 1880-1900 / Ruth E. Iskin; title: Nostalgic appetites : female desire and wartime rationing in Virginia Woolf's Between the acts and Noel Streatfield's Saplings / Andrea Adolph; title: A touch of distinction : furnishing French aristocratic homes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Elizabeth C. Macknight; title: "Novel and ingenious" : innovative graphic arts in the women's magazines of the 1840s and the construction of middle-class taste / Cynthia Patterson; title: The woman's paradise : the American fantasy, home appliances, and consumer demand in liberation France / Rebecca J. Pulju; title: Talking points : advertising female telephone identity / Emily Bills; title: Trans-coding nationalism : subjectivity and military themes in Regency women's dress / Ellen Kennedy Johnson; title: "The beauty of her hands" : the glove and the making of middle-class body / Ariel Beaujot; title: Made for Maharanis : aesthetics of courtly women in colonial princely India / Angma D. Jhala; title: Harmony and concealment : how Chinese women fashioned the Qipao in 1930s China / Wessie Ling; title: Women, clothing and politics in Senegal in the 1940s-1950s / Dior Konaté; title: The duchess's shells : natural history collecting, gender, and scientific practice / Beth Fowkes Tobin; title: Woman of letters : Elizabeth Gaskell's autograph collection and victorian celebrity / Pamela Corpron Parker; title: The women of Liulichang : female collectors and bibliophiles in the late Qing / Shana J. Brown; title: Japanese objects in impressionist women's art : collecting culture and creating identity / Jennifer T. Criss; title: The female past and modernity : displaying women and things in New Zealand department stores, expositions, and museums, 1920s-1960s / Bronwyn Labrum.