{"product_id":"rachel-bowlby-unexpected-items-shopping-parenthood-changing-feminist-stories-9781399528405","title":"Rachel Bowlby - Unexpected Items: Shopping, Parenthood, Changing Feminist Stories","description":"The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or professional, women's defining identities have been transformed, with a loosening of seemingly stone-set gender divisions and a feminist emphasis on expanding choices and different stories. Looking especially at consumer culture and parenthood, this book delves into some of the mutations involved. Here are marketing manuals and newspaper stories, as well as novels and tragedies, from Austen to Aeschylus. \u003ci\u003eUnexpected Items\u003c\/i\u003e is in part a plea for the uses and pleasures of critical reading--of all kinds of text--as a historical method, showing how meanings move on in the light of new contexts and questions, and also how looking close up at the way the words work can itself be a source of new thinking. The woman, the mother, the consumer, the parent--all human characters clash and change, and so do their likely stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Bowlby is Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at University College London. She has written widely on consumer culture and feminist theory, as well as on women and literature. Previous books include \u003ci\u003eBack to the Shops\u003c\/i\u003e (2022); \u003ci\u003eTalking Walking\u003c\/i\u003e (2018); \u003ci\u003eEveryday Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2016); \u003ci\u003eA Child of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (2013); \u003ci\u003eFreudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities\u003c\/i\u003e (2007); and \u003ci\u003eCarried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping\u003c\/i\u003e (2000).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903707418898,"sku":"9781399528405","price":135.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a73f4ea8-7e69-403a-ba6f-d6ad81ebb35e.jpg?v=1738504284","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/rachel-bowlby-unexpected-items-shopping-parenthood-changing-feminist-stories-9781399528405","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}