Rachel Bowlby - Unexpected Items: Shopping, Par. Bowlby, Bowlby,**

Name: Rachel Bowlby - Unexpected Items: Shopping, Par. Bowlby, Bowlby,**
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Rachel Bowlby Unexpected ItemsShopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories\nAuthor(s): Rachel Bowlby\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399528412, 978-1399528412\nSynopsis\nThe mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, womens defining identities have been transformed, with a loosening of seemingly stone-set gender divisions and a feminist emphasis on expanding choices and different stories. Looking especially at consumer culture and parenthood, this book delves into some of the mutations involved. Here are marketing manuals and newspaper stories, as well as novels and tragedies, from Austen to Aeschylus. Unexpected Items is in part a plea for the uses and pleasures of critical readingof all kinds of textas a historical method, showing how meanings move on in the light of new contexts and ques.