Spent
Subtitle: exposing our complicated relationship with shopping
By: edited by Kerry Cohen
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781580055123
Subjects: Shopping; Humor; Women consumers
Description: "In Spent, editor Kerry Cohen opens the closet doors wide to tales of women's true relationships with shopping, from humorous stories of love/hate relationships with the mall to heartbreaking tales of overspending to fix relationships. With a contributor list that includes notable female writers like Emily Chenoweth, Ophira Eisenberg, Allison Amend, and Aryn Kyle, the essays each shine light on the particular impact shopping has on all of us. Whether they're cleaning out closets of loved ones, hiding a shoplifting habit, trying out extreme couponing, dividing up family possessions, or buying a brand-new car while in labor, the book's contributors vacillate between convincing themselves to spend and struggling not to. This illuminating anthology links the effects shopping has on our emotions - whether it fills us with guilt, happiness, resentment, or doubt - our self-worth, and our relationships with parents, grandparents, lovers, children, and friends. "--
Notes: Editor Kerry Cohen opens the closet doors wide to tales of women's true relationships with shopping, from humorous stories of love/ hate relationships with the mall to heartbreaking tales of overspending to fix relationships.
Table of contents: title: Where nothing bad can happen / Monica Drake; title: The things she carried / Robin Romm; title: The shoebox / Mel Wells; title: Welcome, valued customer / Emily Chenoweth; title: Worth it / Ru Freeman; title: Playing house / Rachel Sontag; title: The book money / Aryn Kyle; title: The kids are all right, they're just a little gay: A mall hater's tale / Traci Foust; title: The malls of my youth / Abby Mims; title: Glasses / Elizabeth Scarboro; title: Move over and let the big dogs eat / Stacy Pershall; title: Shopping with clowns / Gigi Little; title: Let's see how fast this baby will go / Gloria Harrison; title: For your age / Susan Senator; title: With Mom / Janet Clare; title: The one that got away / Jennifer Finney Boylan; title: Shopping for breasts / Wendy Staley Colbert; title: A clotheshorse is born / Allison Amend; title: Searching for the magic in Macy's / Jessica Machado; title: Just try it on / Jenny Moore; title: My mother's closet / Kerry Cohen; title: I dream of department stores / Kelly Shire; title: If the shoe fits / Ophira Eisenberg; title: Random sampling / Kristin Thiel; title: Stripped down and redressed / Randon Billings Noble; title: Saved by the Home Depot / Laura M. André; title: The true evidence of my contentment / Candace Walsh; title: Shopping stories / Marni Hochman; title: Monogrammed / Meg Worden; title: Spring dishtowels / Nan Narboe; title: Motherlode / Nancy Rommelmann.