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050		4	_aHV6658 .A245 1989
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100	1		_aAbelson, Elaine S.
245	1	0	_aWhen Ladies Go A-Thieving : _bMiddle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store.
264		1	_aCary : _bOxford University Press, Incorporated, _c1992.
264		4	_c�1989.
300			_a1 online resource (319 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Urban Women and the Emergence of Shopping -- 2 The World of the Store -- 3 The Two-Way Mirror -- 4 Invisible Authority -- 5 Dilemmas of Detection -- 6 Shoplifting Ladies -- 7 " . . . Disposition Shady, but a Perfect Lady -- Epilogue -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
520			_aThis book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and lead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. The invention of kleptomania by psychiatrists and the adoption of this ideology of feminine weakness by retailers, newspapers, the general public, the accused women themselves, and even the courts reveals the way in which a gender analysis allowed proponents of consumer capitalism to mask its contradictions.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aShoplifting-United States-History-19th century..
650		0	_aFemale offenders-United States-History-19th century..
650		0	_aMiddle class women-United States-History-19th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aAbelson, Elaine S. _tWhen Ladies Go A-Thieving : Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store _dCary : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c1992 _z9780195071429
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kliuc-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5567787 _zClick to View
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