Tammy C Whitlock

Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England

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Produktbeschreibung

Using an interdisciplinary approach, 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. The author emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution and, through a focus on retail crime and individual cases of middle-class shoplifting and fraud, provides the first detailed history of the "kleptomaniac" woman in 19th c. England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781138251427
• ISBN-10: 1138251429
• Artikelnr.: 57043475

Autorenporträt

Tammy C. Whitlock is Professor of the Department of History at the University of Kentucky, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction. Part I Destroying 'The Nation Of Shopkeepers': Ready money only: small shops and new retail methods
Vanity fairs: the growth of bazaars and fancy fairs
'Mothers beware!': fraud by the retailer
The culture of fraud and the female consumer. Part II Criminal Consumption: Shoplifting in early 19th-century England
Mrs McGregor's sealskin jacket: female frauds and the art of buying without paying
Solving the problem of the criminal consumer: women and kleptomania. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.