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When Ladies Go A-Thieving

Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store

By: Elaine S. Abelson

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When Ladies Go A-Thieving

Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store

By: Elaine S. Abelson

This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and plead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. The invention of kleptomania by psychiatrists and the adoption of this ideology of feminine weakness by retailers, newspapers, the general public, the accused women themselves, and even the courts reveals the way in which a gender analysis allowed proponents of consumer capitalism to mask its contradictions.

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322

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Oxford University Press

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ISBN 10

0195361180

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9780195361186

Hystories

Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media

By: Elaine Showalter

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Hystories

Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media

By: Elaine Showalter

Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria--its causes, cures, famous patients, and doctors--in the 20th century to show that hysterias are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times.

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268

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Columbia University Press

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0231104596

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9780231104593

Take Care of Your Skin

By: Elaine Brumberg

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Take Care of Your Skin

By: Elaine Brumberg

Women spend more than $2.5 billion on skin care products a year, often without real knowledge of what they're getting. Brumberg explains the importance of understanding skin type, store hype, sunscreens, anti-aging products, acne, and much more. Illustrated.

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292

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HarperCollins Publishers

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0060916842

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9780060916848

Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

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Hysteria Beyond Freud

By: Sander L. Gilman,Helen King,Roy Porter,G. S. Rousseau,Elaine Showalter

She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

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502

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Univ of California Press

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0520309936

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9780520309937

Barren in the Promised Land

Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

By: Elaine Tyler May

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Barren in the Promised Land

Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness

By: Elaine Tyler May

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

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340

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Harvard University Press

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0674061829

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9780674061828

Handbook of Families and Health

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By: D. Russell Crane,Elaine S. Marshall

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Handbook of Families and Health

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

By: D. Russell Crane,Elaine S. Marshall

For scholars, graduates, and practitioners in the field of families and health, an overview of research related to couple, marital, and family influences on health. Editors Crane and Marshall (Brigham Young U.) gathered contributions from specialists in disciplines including family studies, marriage and family therapy, nursing and family medicine,

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554

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SAGE

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0761930418

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9780761930419

Ageless

What Every Woman Needs to Know to Look Good and Feel Great

By: Elaine Brumberg

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Ageless

What Every Woman Needs to Know to Look Good and Feel Great

By: Elaine Brumberg

Today's cosmetics industry has struck a goldmine: Hundreds of new products, which promise to defy age, rejuvenate skin and erase wrinkles, are being offered to women who eagerly buy them and wait for the miracles to begin. Now, in her newest book, Elaine Brumberg gets to the bottom of the advertising claims, examines specific products and their ingredients, provides recommendations and delivers the one-of-a-kind information every woman needs to make smart choices. She illustrates how skin and hair care, cosmetic surgery, diet, exercise and above all, attitude contribute to maintaining youthful good looks. By sharing her personal experience, Elaine motivates and inspires women to look ahead at the wonderful opportunities that await them. With helpful hints, anecdotes, sidebars and charts complemented by the author's down-to-earth style, Ageless is an up-to-the-minute, comprehensive, motivational handbook for all image-conscious women.

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368

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William Morrow

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0062701592

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9780062701596

Book's by Elaine Brumberg

When Ladies Go A-Thieving

When Ladies Go A-Thieving

Hystories

Hystories

Take Care of Your Skin

Take Care of Your Skin

Hysteria Beyond Freud

Hysteria Beyond Freud

Barren in the Promised Land

Barren in the Promised Land

Handbook of Families and Health

Handbook of Families and Health

Ageless

Ageless

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