Rachel Bowlby Unexpected Items: ""Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories""

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Rachel Bowlby

Rachel Bowlby Unexpected Items

""Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories""

Rachel Bowlby

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Edinburgh University Press
31 July 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: The Feminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism

The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, women's 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 reading-of all kinds of text-as a historical method, showing how meanings move on in the light of new contexts and questions, and also how looking close up at the way the words work can itself be a source of new thinking. The woman, the mother, the consumer, the parent-all human characters clash and change, and so do their likely stories.

By: Rachel Bowlby
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399528405
ISBN 10: 1399528408
Series: The Feminist Library: Essays in Cultural Criticism
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 31 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. She has written widely on consumer culture and feminist theory, as well as on women and literature. Previous books include Back to the Shops (2022); Talking Walking (2018); Everyday Stories (2016); A Child of One's Own (2013); Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities (2007); and Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping (2000).

Reviews for Rachel Bowlby Unexpected Items: ""Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories""

Everyone loves reading Rachel Bowlby. The immersion in these unexpected discussions - of family, generations, parenthood, shopping, marketing, feminism, literature and life - is unbroken from start to finish, which was entirely to be expected.--Mark Currie, Queen Mary University of London