Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Carried Away Ranging from 1940s trade journals to "The Stepford Wives" and novels by Zola, Virginia Woolf and Don Delillo, this title traces the transformations in the shopper from the days of the glamorous department store to our own functionalist superstores and tells us not a little about the changing roles of women and men along the way.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 06 November 2000
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Popular Culture | Gender Studies: Women | Retail Sector
- ISBN 13: 9780571193073 ISBN 10: 0571193072
- Sales rank: 1,080,427
Full description for Carried Away
Is shopping an exercise in consumer freedom - or in corporate manipulation? It takes up a good deal of our time and a great deal of our imagination, but as consumers we know all too little about the hidden aspects of shopping: how our intimate, complex relationship with department stores and supermarkets affects our lives every minute of the day. In this fascinating look at a largely unexamined corner of our lives, Rachel Bowlby untangles some of our convoluted ideas about shopping and consuming. Ranging from 1940s trade journals to "The Stepford Wives" and novels by Zola, Virginia Woolf and Don Delillo, "Carried Away" traces the transformations in the shopper from the days of the glamorous department store to our own functionalist superstores and tells us not a little about the changing roles of women and men along the way. It is a witty and revelatory book that shines a light into the darkest corners of the shop-window.
