Consuming fantasies: labor, leisure, and the London shopgirl, 1880-1920
Description:
(print) xi, 279 p. ; 24 cm
Contents:
Constructing the shopgirl : the politics of everyday life -- Figuring the female body : labor, sex, and desire in the department store -- The failures of the romance : boredom and the production of consuming desires -- Imagining alternatives to the romance: absorption and distraction as modes of reading -- Distracted pleasures: gender, leisure, and consuming in public
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