Rachel Bowlby – Unexpected Items

Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Rachel Bowlby, University College London) Bowlby, Rachel (Professor of Comparative Literature

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The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, women's defining identities have been transformed, with a loosening of seemingly stone-set gender divisions and a feminist emphasis on expanding choices and different stories. Looking especially at consumer culture and parenthood, this book delves into some of the mutations involved. Here are marketing manuals and newspaper stories, as well as novels and tragedies, from Austen to Aeschylus. Unexpected Items is in part a plea for the uses and pleasures of critical reading of all kinds of text as a historical method, showing how meanings move on in the light of new contexts and questions, and also how looking close up at the way the words work can itself be a source of new thinking. The woman, the mother, the consumer, the parent all human characters clash and change, and so do their likely stories.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-31
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt532 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFeminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399528405

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AbbreviationsIntroduction: Unexpected ItemsPart I: Parenthood1. Generations2. A Tale of Two Parents: Dickens’s Great Expectations　3. Finding a Life: Eliot’s Silas Marner　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　4. How Not to Be Parented: New Men in Pamela and Pride and PrejudicePart II: Consumer Culture5. Soft Sell: Marketing Rhetoric in Feminist Criticism6. Make up Your Mind: Scenes from the Psychology of Selling and Consumption7. The Uses of Shopping: Richard Hoggart Goes to Woolworth’s8. Scenes of Shopping9. Buying the Baby, Growing Your Own　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Part III: Feminist Directions10. Fifty Fifty: Female Subjectivity and the Danaids11. Domestication12. ‘We’re Getting There’: Woolf and Feminist Criticism13. Untold Stories in Mrs Dalloway14. ‘I Had Barbara’: Women’s Ties and Wharton’s ‘Roman Fever’AcknowledgementsIndex