Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England |
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| Author:
| Whitlock, Tammy C. |
| Series title: | The History of Retailing and Consumption Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-5207-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2005 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $175.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.