The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture write by Dennis Denisoff. This book was released on 2016-12-05. The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the rise of consumer culture in the nineteenth century, children and childhood were called on to fulfill a range of important roles. In addition to being consumers themselves, the young functioned as both 'goods' to be used and consumed by adults and as proof that middle-class materialist ventures were assisting in the formation of a more ethical society. Children also provided necessary labor and raw material for industry. This diverse collection addresses the roles assigned to children in the context of nineteenth-century consumer culture, at the same time that it remains steadfast in recognizing that the young did not simply exist within adult-articulated cultural contexts but were agents in their formation. Topics include toys and middle-class childhood; boyhood and toy theater; child performers on the Victorian stage; gender, sexuality and consumerism; imperialism in adventure fiction; the idealization of childhood as a form of adult entertainment and self-flattery; the commercialization of orphans; and the economics behind formulations of child poverty. Together, the essays demonstrate the rising investment both children and adults made in commodities as sources of identity and human worth.
Raising Consumers
Raising Consumers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Raising Consumers write by Lisa Jacobson. This book was released on 2004. Raising Consumers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important--and controversial--dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant during the postwar television age. But the child consumer was already an important phenomenon in the early twentieth century. The family, traditionally the primary institution of child socialization, began to face an array of new competitors who sought to put their own imprint on children's acculturation to consumer capitalism. Advertisers, children's magazine publishers, public schools, child experts, and children's peer groups alternately collaborated with, and competed against, the family in their quest to define children's identities. At stake in these conflicts and collaborations was no less than the direction of American consumer society--would children's consumer training rein in hedonistic excesses or contribute to the spread of hollow, commercial values? Not simply a new player in the economy, the child consumer became a lightning rod for broader concerns about the sanctity of the family and the authority of the market in modern capitalist culture. Lisa Jacobson reveals how changing conceptions of masculinity and femininity shaped the ways Americans understood the virtues and vices of boy and girl consumers--and why boys in particular emerged as the heroes of the new consumer age. She also analyzes how children's own behavior, peer culture, and emotional investment in goods influenced the dynamics of the new consumer culture. Raising Consumers is a provocative examination of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produced and ultimately legitimized a distinctive children's consumer culture in the early twentieth century.
Commercializing Childhood
Commercializing Childhood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commercializing Childhood write by Paul B. Ringel. This book was released on 2015. Commercializing Childhood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Establishing Children's Magazines, 1823-1856 -- 1. Deacon Willis's Companion -- 2. Aunt Maria's Miscellany and the Limits of Gentility -- Part II. Commercializing Children's Magazines, 1857-1873 -- 3. Perry Mason and Sensational Gentility -- 4. The Youth's Companion and the Civil War -- 5. The Cultural Custodians -- 6. The Jack-in-the-Pulpit -- Part III. Sustaining Children's Magazines, 1873-1918 -- 7. Tales and the City -- 8. Children's Magazines and Modern Childhood -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.
Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford
Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford write by Sabine Chaouche. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Student Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oxford available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores students’ consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford. Consumerism surged among undergraduates in the 1830s and decreased by contrast from the 1860s as students learned to practice restraint and make wiser choices, putting a brake on past excessive consumption habits. This study concentrates on the minority of debtors, the daily lives of undergraduates, and their social and economic environment. It scrutinises the variety of goods that were on offer, paying special attention to their social and symbolic uses and meanings. Through emulation and self-display, undergraduate culture impacted the formation of male identities and spending habits. Using Oxford students as a case study, this book opens new pathways in the history of consumption and capitalism, revealing how youth consumer culture intertwined with the rise of competition among tradesmen and university reforms in the 1850s and 1860s.
Celebrating the Family
Celebrating the Family - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celebrating the Family write by Elizabeth H. Pleck. This book was released on 2000-07-04. Celebrating the Family available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pleck examines changes in the way Americans celebrate holidays like Christmas or birthdays.
