Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century

Author/Contributor(s):	Kowaleski-Wallace, Elizabeth
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	12/26/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historicist ideas, Kowaleski-Wallace suveys eighteenth century literary texts, material object, and cultural events to illuminate the ways in which women are both controlled by and empowered through images of consumption.