Consumerism and the Movement of Housewives into Wage Work: The Interaction of Patriarchy, Class and Capitalism in Twentieth Century America

by David R Wells, David R Wells, David R. Wells

First published in 1998, this volume explores the connections between the rises in consumerism and the number of married women in paid work in light of the centrality of shopping and consumerism to the modern world. David R. Wells argues for women's incomplete gains from consumerism through an analysis of married women's employment, the structure of capitalism and the contradictory requirements of consumerism, the homemaker ideal and gender identity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113861159X
• ISBN13: 9781138611597
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.6"