Title When Ladies Go A-Thieving : Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1992

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages) 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 Summary 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, we Analysis Shoplifting Notes Print version record Subject Shoplifting -- United States -- History -- 19th century Female offenders -- United States -- History -- 19th century Middle class women -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women consumers -- United States -- History -- 19th century Department stores -- United States -- History -- 19th century Department stores Female offenders Middle class women Shoplifting Women consumers United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198021810 019802181X 9781601298430 1601298439 128065483X 9781280654831

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