![]() | A Shoppers’ Paradise: How the Ladies of Chicago Claimed Power and Pleasure in the New Downtown Subjects: Women consumers -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Shopping -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Purchasing power -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Retail trade -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Loop (Chicago Ill.) -- History; Chicago (Ill.) -- Economic; How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. |
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