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A Shoppers' Paradise : How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown / Emily Remus.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674987272
  • 9780674240292
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 381.1082/0977311 23
LOC classification:
  • HC107.I33 C66 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Moneyed Women and the Downtown -- 2. The Hoopskirt War of 1893 -- 3. Consumer Rights and the Theater Hat Problem -- 4. Tippling Ladies and Public Pleasure -- 5. Mashers, Prostitutes, and Shopping Ladies -- 6. The Traffic of Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities invite their trade. But downtowns were not always welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the last century to chronicle an unheralded revolution in women's rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674240292

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Moneyed Women and the Downtown -- 2. The Hoopskirt War of 1893 -- 3. Consumer Rights and the Theater Hat Problem -- 4. Tippling Ladies and Public Pleasure -- 5. Mashers, Prostitutes, and Shopping Ladies -- 6. The Traffic of Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities invite their trade. But downtowns were not always welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the last century to chronicle an unheralded revolution in women's rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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