Crime, gender, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century England / Tammy C. Whitlock.

SeriesThe history of retailing and consumption
Contents Ready money only : small shops and new retail methods -- Vanity fairs : the growth of bazaars and fancy fairs -- 'Mothers beware!' : fraud by the retailer -- The culture of fraud and the female consumer -- Shoplifting in early nineteenth-century England -- Mrs. McGregor's sealskin jacket : female frauds and the art of buying without paying -- Solving the problem of the criminal consumer : women and kleptomania.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-235) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004016884
ISBN0754652076 (alk. paper)

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