03440nam 2200685 450 991081103530332120230331015809.00-19-771788-80-19-802181-X1-280-65483-X1-4237-3747-40-19-536118-01-60129-843-9(CKB)1000000000028631(StDuBDS)AH24084422(SSID)ssj0000271015(PQKBManifestationID)11188801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271015(PQKBWorkID)10299260(PQKB)10634785(SSID)ssj0000367521(PQKBManifestationID)12152147(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367521(PQKBWorkID)10312103(PQKB)11662540(Au-PeEL)EBL5567787(OCoLC)475956160(MiAaPQ)EBC5567787(EXLCZ)99100000000002863120220526d1989 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrWhen ladies go a-thieving middle-class shoplifters in the Victorian department store /Elaine S. AbelsonNew York ;Oxford :Oxford University Press,[1989]©19891 online resource (ix, 292 p., [14] p. of plates ) ill., portBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-505125-4 0-19-507142-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- 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.This 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 plead 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.ShopliftingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryFemale offendersUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMiddle class womenUnited StatesHistory19th centuryShopliftingHistoryFemale offendersHistoryMiddle class womenHistory364.162Abelson Elaine S.1675810MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811035303321When ladies go a-thieving4041551UNINA