#GoodRead | The secret feminist history of shopping
"The secret feminist history of shopping":
…once upon a time, shopping galleries were deeply radical spaces.In fact, it’s impossible to tell the full story of women’s rights without talking about the rise of the mall and its predecessor, the shopping district. These places were crucial to the invention of shopping as an experience: as an act of leisure, as a way to spend an afternoon. And in doing so, they opened up modern cities to women and gave them areas where they, like men, could wander at will.