WOMENST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Corporate Capitalism, Karl Stefanovic

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Elaine abelson, urban women and the emergence of shopping . 18th and 19th centuries, until industrial revolution in second of 19th century. Many goods required by the family were manufactured in the home: clothing, yarn, and thread; agricultural preserves (drying meat; canning fruit); rugs, curtains, lamps, candles, etc. etc. shoes, vegetables and. Industrialization makes the mass manufacture of these goods possible and affordable. Urbanization puts formerly rural families together in cities, which changes behaviour and consumption patterns further. Shopping centers (dry goods stores, then department stores and shopping districts) become a new place for female activity. Shopping is both work (providing for family; exhibiting appropriate behaviour) and. Play (not being at home with the kids or chores or staff). Middle-class women have more leisure time (less spinning, sewing, needlework, canning, cooking) and increased representational duties (having an outward and social appearance that supported middle-class status claims). Middle-class existence: 22216 and employment, but also culture and consumption.

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