Berkshire Conference on Women’s History, Toronto, Canada, May 22-25, 2014, Website
Call for panelists from Erika Rappaport: Though scholars have long known that men and women do not neatly fit into neat categories of producer and consumer, this trope has meant that much scholarship on the gendered nature of modern consumer society has focused on how various cultural forms and commercial practices that have produced normative understandings of femininity. I am looking for co-panelists who are interested instead in considering the role that women have played in shaping and/or producing consumer society. Along the lines of works such as Continue reading