American Decades
The Woman Shopper: How to Make Her Buy
Magazine article
By: Isaac F. Marcosson
Date: 1910
Source: Marcosson, Isaac F. "The Woman Shopper: How to Make Her Buy." The Saturday Evening Post 183, no. 8, August 20, 1910.
About the Author: Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1876–1961), a prolific writer on various business-related issues, was one of America's leading advertising and marketing authorities during the first half of the twentieth century.
Introduction
A debate has engaged historians regarding which came first: the chicken or the egg. In this case, the discussion revolves around an intriguing question: Did the women's liberation movement of the 1960s create an increased consciousness among working women, or did the working women themselves create the women's liberation movement? Similarly, the feminist movement earlier in the century appears to have been largely the result of the changing...
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1910's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- The Conflict of Colour
- The Woman Shopper: How to Make Her Buy
- The Social Evil in Chicago
- The Immigration Problem
- "On the Imitation of Man"
- America's Sex Hysteria
- "Making Men of Them"
- "The Next and Final Step"
- "The Flapper"
- "How We Manage"
- The Passing of the Great Race
- "Are the Movies a Menace to the Drama?"
- The Individual Delinquent
- Dark Side of Wartime Patriotism
- "The Negro Should Be a Party to the Commercial Conquest of the World"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
