How Long to Read When Ladies Go A-thieving

How Long Does it Take to Read When Ladies Go A-thieving?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read When Ladies Go A-thieving by Elaine S. Abelson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book focuses on middle-class urban women as participants in new forms of consumer culture. Within the special world of the department store, women found themselves challenged to resist the enticements of consumption. Many succumbed, buying both what they needed and what they desired, but also stealing what seemed so readily available. Pitted against these middle-class women were the management, detectives, and clerks of the department stores. Abelson argues that in the interest of concealing this darker side of consumerism, women of the middle class, but not those of the working class, were allowed to shoplift and plead incapacitating illness--kleptomania. The invention of kleptomania by psychiatrists and the adoption of this ideology of feminine weakness by retailers, newspapers, the general public, the accused women themselves, and even the courts reveals the way in which a gender analysis allowed proponents of consumer capitalism to mask its contradictions.

How long is When Ladies Go A-thieving?

When Ladies Go A-thieving by Elaine S. Abelson is 319 pages long, and a total of 82,621 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read When Ladies Go A-thieving Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 31 minutes to read When Ladies Go A-thieving aloud.

What Reading Level is When Ladies Go A-thieving?

When Ladies Go A-thieving is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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