TY - BOOK AU - Rappaport,Erika TI - Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End SN - 9781400843534 AV - HF5415.33.E542 L667 2000 U1 - 658.8/342 21 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Consumer behavior KW - Sex differences KW - England KW - London KW - History KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Department stores KW - Women consumers KW - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General KW - bisacsh KW - Albemarle Club KW - Arendt, Hannah KW - Barton, Rose KW - Bayswater Chronicle KW - Blackwell, Elizabeth KW - Burton, Antoinette KW - Charity Organization Society KW - Christmas shopping KW - Davis, Edith KW - Davis, Tracy KW - Deslys, Gaby KW - Domosh, Mona KW - Empire Theater KW - Englishwoman KW - Ferguson, Margorie KW - Gagnier, Regina KW - Gluckstein, Montague KW - Hamilton, Helen KW - Haug, Wolfgang KW - Hubbard, Louisa KW - Jackson, Holbrook KW - Johnson, Paul KW - Kensington High Street KW - Krout, Mary KW - Latham, Francis KW - Lindsay, Sir Coutts KW - Lyons, Joseph KW - New, Melvyn KW - Nightingale, Florence KW - Orme, Denise KW - Paine, William KW - Piccadilly Circus KW - Pollock, Griselda KW - Primrose League KW - Queen's Theater KW - Sandringham Club KW - actresses KW - advertising KW - carnival KW - commodity fetishism KW - consumer politics KW - culture industry KW - fashion industry KW - gaslight KW - ground landlords KW - mass catering KW - melodrama KW - modernity KW - musical comedy KW - railway fiction KW - restaurant dining N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION. "To Walk Alone in London" --; CHAPTER ONE. "The Halls of Temptation": The Universal Provider and the Pleasures of Suburbia --; CHAPTER TWO. The Trials of Consumption: Marriage, Law, and Women's Credit --; CHAPTER THREE. "Resting Places for Women Wayfarers": Feminism and the Comforts of the Public Sphere --; CHAPTER FOUR. Metropolitan Journeys: Shopping, Traveling, and Reading the West End --; CHAPTER FIVE. "A New Era of Shopping": An American Department Store in Edwardian London --; CHAPTER SIX. Acts of Consumption: Musical Comedy and the Desire of Exchange --; EPILOGUE. The Politics of Plate Glass --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged and discouraged women's enjoyment of public life and particularly shows how shopping came to be seen as the quintessential leisure activity for middle- and upper-class women. Through extensive histories of department stores, women's magazines, clubs, teashops, restaurants, and the theater as interwoven sites of consumption, Shopping for Pleasure uncovers how a new female urban culture emerged before and after the turn of the twentieth century.Moving beyond the question of whether shopping promoted or limited women's freedom, the author draws on diverse sources to explore how business practices, legal decisions, and cultural changes affected women in the market. In particular, she focuses on how and why stores presented themselves as pleasurable, secure places for the urban woman, in some cases defining themselves as instrumental to civic improvement and women's emancipation. Rappaport also considers such influences as merchandizing strategies, credit policies, changes in public transportation, feminism, and the financial balance of power within the home. Shopping for Pleasure is thus both a social and cultural history of the West End, but on a broader scale it reveals the essential interplay between the rise of consumer society, the birth of modern femininity, and the making of contemporary London UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843534?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843534 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400843534.jpg ER -