{"product_id":"marianne-in-the-market-lisa-tiersten-9780520225299","title":"Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France","description":"In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as the French reputation for good taste. The female bourgeois consumer was a particularly charged figure because she represented consumption run amok. Critics feared that the marketplace compromised her morality and aesthetic discernment, with dire repercussions for domestic life and public order.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarianne in the Market\u003c\/i\u003e traces debates about the woman consumer to examine the complex encounter between the market and the republic in nineteenth-century France. It explores how agents of capitalism--advertisers, department store managers, fashion journalists, self-styled taste experts--addressed fears of consumerism through the forging of an aesthetics of the marketplace: a \"marketplace modernism.\" In so doing, they constructed an image of the bourgeois woman as the solution to the problem of unrestrained, individualized, and irrational consumption. Commercial professionals used taste to civilize the market and to produce consumers who would preserve the French aesthetic patrimony. Tasteful consumption legitimized women's presence in the urban public and reconciled their roles as consumers with their domestic and civic responsibilities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating case study, \u003ci\u003eMarianne in the Market\u003c\/i\u003e builds on a wide range of sources such as the feminine press, decorating handbooks, exposition reports, advertising materials, novels, and etiquette books. Lisa Tiersten draws on these materials to make the compelling argument that market professionals used the allure of aesthetically informed consumerism to promote new models of the female consumer and the market in keeping with Republican ideals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Tiersten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520225295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520225299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.31w x 1.05d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2002 pg. 1489","brand":"Lisa Tiersten","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401237254399,"sku":"9780520225299","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_074dbb95-9eb1-4ec8-ba8d-b5baab620313.jpg?v=1733887135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/marianne-in-the-market-lisa-tiersten-9780520225299","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}