With the volume's global perspective and comparative framework,
this collection contributes to the ongoing scholarly examination of
consumption by taking the topic of women, material culture, and
consumption into new arenas. The essays explore the connections
between consumption and subjectivity; they build upon and
complicate the idea that consumption, as a form of meaning making,
is key to the construction of gendered, classed, and national
identities. Providing a cross-cultural perspective on consumption,
the essays are historically specific case studies. While some
essays examine women's consumption in a range of Anglophone and
Francophone locations, primarily in Britain, France, Australia,
Canada, and the US, other essays on Chinese, Senegalese, Indian,
and Mexican women's consumption, particularly as it relates to
fashion and design, provide a comparative framework that will
recalibrate ongoing discussions about consumption and domesticity,
dress and identity, and desire and subjectivity. In addition to its
focus on gender and consumption, this volume addresses gender and
collecting, exploring the tensions between accumulation and
systematic collecting. Also examined is the way in which the
display of collected objects"in Impressionists' paintings, in
mass-produced illustrations, in the glass cases of museums and
department stores"participates in the construction of particular
identities as well as serving as a kind of value-producing material
practice.
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