Böcker av Rachel Bowlby

Pieces of feminist argument, from shopping to parenthood to literature

Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, this work addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms 'commerce' and 'culture' which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices.

How do texts construct possibilities and limits, openings and impasses, which set the terms for the ways in that we think about what a woman is, or where women might be going, whether individually or collectively? This book offers some possible answers and more questions, moving from Virginia Woolf to advertising and from Freud to Feminist theory.

An examination of the psychology of consumerism and some of the ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - from literature to marketing to psychology. Bowlby examines the arguments and presumptions about the values of the consumer culture.

Part of the "Longman Critical Readers" series, this text represents a compilation of theoretical essays written on the work of Virginia Woolf, which aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays and locate areas of disagreement between positions.