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Contents: Introduction: consumption as a gendered social practice, Beth Fowkes Tobin Consuming Desires: 'The things I so indispensably needed': material objects as a reflection of Mary Shelley's life, Pamela Siska Material women: the department-store fashion poster in Paris, 1880-1900, Ruth E. Iskin Nostalgic appetites: female desire and wartime rationing in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts and Noel Streatfield's Saplings, Andrea Adolph. Home and Consumption: A touch of distinction: furnishing French aristocratic homes in the 19th and 20th centuries, Elizabeth C. Macknight 'Novel and ingenious': innovative graphic arts in the women's magazines of the 1840s and the construction of middle-class taste, Cynthia Patterson The woman's paradise: the American fantasy, home appliances, and consumer demand in liberation France, Rebecca J. Pulju Talking points: advertising female telephone identity, Emily Bills. Dress: Gendered and Political Identities: Trans-coding nationalism: subjectivity and military themes in Regency women's dress, Ellen Kennedy Johnson 'The beauty of her hands': the glove and the making of middle-class body, Ariel Beaujot Made for maharanis: aesthetics of courtly women in colonial princely India, Angma D. Jhala Harmony and concealment: how Chinese women fashioned the qipao in 1930s China, Wessie Ling Women, clothing and politics in Senegal in the 1940s-1950s, Dior Konate. Collecting, Displaying, and Creating Value: The duchess's shells: natural history collecting, gender, and scientific practice, Beth Fowkes Tobin Woman of letters: Elizabeth Gaskell's autograph collection and Victorian celebrity, Pamela Corpron Parker The women of Liulichang: female collectors and bibliophiles in the late Qing, Shana J. Brown Japanese objects in Impressionist women's art: collecting culture and creating identity, Jennifer T. Criss The female past and modernity: displaying women and things in New Zealand department stores, expositions, and museums, 192
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