CONSUMING FANTASIES: LABOR, LEISURE, AND THE LONDON SHOPGIRL,

by LISE SHAPIRO SANDERS

The Ohio State University Press, 2006

Cloth: 978-0-8142-1017-8 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5382-3

Library of Congress Classification PR468.W6S26 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 820.93522

Contents
List of Illustrations-
Acknowledgments 
Introduction	
Chapter 1	Constructing the Shopgirl: The Politics of Everyday Life 	
Chapter 2	Figuring the Female Body: Labor, Sex, and Desire in the Department Store	
Chapter 3	The Failures of the Romance: Boredom and the Production of
Consuming Desires	
Chapter 4	Imagining Alternatives to the Romance: Absorption and
Distraction as Modes of Reading 	
Chapter 5	Distracted Pleasures: Gender, Leisure, and Consuming in Public	
Conclusion 	
Notes
Bibliography	
Index

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