Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Men, women, production, consumption / Steven Lubar --
A house divided : the culture of the American luxury hotel, 1825-1860 / Molly W. Berger --
Love, war, and chocolate : gender and the American candy industry, 1890-1930 / Gail Cooper --
Getting housewives the electric message : gender and energy marketing in the early twentieth century / James C. Williams --
"A cleanser for the mind" : marketing radio receivers for the American home, 1922-1932 / Louis Carlat --
Cinderella stories : the glass of fashion and the gendered marketplace / Regina Lee Blaszczyk --
Shopping for a good stove : a parable about gender, design, and the market / Joy Parr --
From town center to shopping center : the reconfiguration of community marketplaces in postwar America / Lizabeth Cohen.