""Shopping for Pleasure" is an impressive, engaging and important
book. Erika Rappaport has taken on the challenge of drawing
together the currently diverging fields of cultural, gender and
urban history, and she has succeeded splendidly."--Geoffrey
Crossick, University of Essex.
""Shopping for Pleasure" is an exciting blend of social,
economic, and cultural history that shows an inventive use of
sources and a clever juxtaposition of different domains of
historical inquiry. Rappaport is tackling a set of topics that,
astonishingly, have remained unexplored in British historiography.
. . . With great and superb detail, the book tells an original
story about middle-class women's urban culture and its relation to
feminism."--Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins University
"["Shopping for Pleasure"] contributes significantly to feminist
scholarship, partly because it shows why this aspect of everyday
life deserves serious analysis and because it offers such deft
analyses of women's contributions to the commercial success of
London in this period."--Mary Poovey, New York University
"An innovative and imaginative work. The originality lies partly
in the juxtaposition of new materials, such as the institutional
histories of Selfridge's and Whiteley's, the women's clubs of the
late Victorian and Edwardian years, and the West End musical
comedies. Erika Rappaport uses this material with great
sophistication, referring to theoretical works in film studies,
cultural studies, literature, and history. The illustrations, too,
are extremely engaging."--Ellen Ross, Ramapo College
"Shopping for Pleasure is an impressive, engaging and important
book. Erika Rappaport has taken on the challenge ofdrawing together
the currently diverging fields of cultural, gender and urban
history, and she has succeeded splendidly."--Geoffrey Crossick,
University of Essex
"In Shopping for Pleasure Erika Rappaport tells the fascinating
story of women's relationship to commercial culture in London in
the last half of the nineteenth century, and she does so with elan,
clarity, and prodigious research. She moves from the creation of
the first department stores to the era of the suffragettes, from
the "Girl of the Period" to the Gaiety Girl, from Whitely's to
Selfridge's, from Charlotte Bronte to Amy Levy, and from Bayswater
to Regent Street. While touching on a wide variety of topics, among
them the appearance of public toilets, the creation of women's
clubs and tea rooms, the proliferation of women's magazines, and
musical comedy, Rappaport's subject is ultimately the creation of a
modern ideal of middle-class femininity: no longer merely domestic
and private but engaged as well in the public realm of consumption,
display, and civic action."--Deborah Nord, Princeton University
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