LEADER 03440nam 2200685 450 001 9910811035303321 005 20230331015809.0 010 $a0-19-771788-8 010 $a0-19-802181-X 010 $a1-280-65483-X 010 $a1-4237-3747-4 010 $a0-19-536118-0 010 $a1-60129-843-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028631 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24084422 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271015 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11188801 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271015 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10299260 035 $a(PQKB)10634785 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000367521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12152147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312103 035 $a(PQKB)11662540 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5567787 035 $a(OCoLC)475956160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5567787 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028631 100 $a20220526d1989 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen ladies go a-thieving $emiddle-class shoplifters in the Victorian department store /$fElaine S. Abelson 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d[1989] 210 4$dİ1989 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 292 p., [14] p. of plates ) $cill., port 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-505125-4 311 $a0-19-507142-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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. 330 $bThis 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. 606 $aShoplifting$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFemale offenders$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMiddle class women$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aShoplifting$xHistory 615 0$aFemale offenders$xHistory 615 0$aMiddle class women$xHistory 676 $a364.162 700 $aAbelson$b Elaine S.$01675810 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811035303321 996 $aWhen ladies go a-thieving$94041551 997 $aUNINA