Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End

by Erika Rappaport

Book Overview

In Shopping for Pleasure, Erika Rappaport reconstructs London's Victorian and Edwardian West End as an entertainment and retail center. In this neighborhood of stately homes, royal palaces, and spacious parks and squares, a dramatic transformation unfolded that ultimately changed the meaning of femininity and the lives of women, shaping their experience of modernity. Rappaport illuminates the various forces of the period that encouraged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691044767
• ISBN13: 9780691044767
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 9.7"