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Consuming Fantasies

Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920

By: Lise Sanders

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Consuming Fantasies

Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920

By: Lise Sanders

In Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920, Lise Shapiro Sanders examines the cultural significance of the shopgirl - both historical figure and fictional heroine - from the end of Queen Victoria's reign through the First World War. As the author reveals, the shopgirl embodied the fantasies associated with a growing consumer culture: romantic adventure, upward mobility, and the acquisition of material goods. Reading novels such as George Gissing's The Odd Women and W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage as well as short stories, musical comedies, and films, Sanders argues that the London shopgirl appeared in the midst of controversies over sexual morality and the pleasures and dangers of London itself. Sanders explores the shopgirl's centrality to modern conceptions of fantasy, desire, and everyday life for working women and argues for her as a key figure in cultural and social histories of the period. This study will appeal to scholars, students, and enthusiasts of Victorian and Edwardian life and literature."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

By: Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

By: Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times. With a temporal focus on women’s life experience, the book moves from childhood and youth, through puberty and adolescence, to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, into senescence. Drawing on osteological sources, medical discourses, and examples from the literature and cultural history of the period, alongside social and environmental data derived from ethnographic and archival investigations, the authors explore the experience of being female in the Victorian era for women across classes. In synthesizing current research on demographic statistics, maternal morbidity and mortality, and bioarchaeological evidence on patterns of aging and death, they analyze how changing social ideals, cultural and environmental variability, shifting economies, and evolving medical and scientific understanding about the body combined to shape female health and identity in the nineteenth century. Victorian women faced a variety of challenges, including changing attitudes regarding appropriate behavior, social roles, and beauty standards, while grappling with new understandings of the role played by gender and sexuality in shaping women’s lives from youth to old age. The book concludes by considering the relevance of how Victorian narratives of womanhood and the experience of being female have influenced perceptions of female health and cultural constructions of identity today.

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Consuming Fantasies

Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920

By: Lise Sanders

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Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

By: Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders

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Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

By: Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders

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Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Science, Sexuality, and the Affliction of Being Female

By: Pamela K. Stone,Lise Shapiro Sanders

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the times. With a temporal focus on women's life experience, the book moves from childhood and youth, through puberty and adolescence, to pregnancy, birth, and motherhood, into senescence. Drawing on osteological sources, medical discourses, and examples from the literature and cultural history of the period, alongside social and environmental data derived from ethnographic and archival investigations, the authors explore the experience of being female in the Victorian era for women across classes. In synthesizing current research on demographic statistics, maternal morbidity and mortality, and bioarchaeological evidence on patterns of aging and death, they analyze how changing social ideals, cultural and environmental variability, shifting economies, and evolving medical and scientific understanding about the body combined to shape female health and identity in the nineteenth century. Victorian women faced a variety of challenges, including changing attitudes regarding appropriate behavior, social roles, and beauty standards, while grappling with new understandings of the role played by gender and sexuality in shaping women's lives from youth to old age. The book concludes by considering the relevance of how Victorian narratives of womanhood and the experience of being female have influenced perceptions of female health and cultural constructions of identity today"--

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Consuming Fantasies

Consuming Fantasies

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Consuming Fantasies

Consuming Fantasies

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

Bodies and Lives in Victorian England

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