Talk:Charity bazaar

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:47, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• ... that the charity bazaar was a forerunner to the department store? Source: "Some of the innovations credited by historians of the latter nineteenth-century to the department stores developed first in the bazaars" (paragraph continues to list these innovations) "Closing in 1889, the Soho Bazaar itself was replaced by the newest innovation in consumer culture--the department store." (Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England)
  • ALT1:... that women on display at a Victorian charity bazaar hard-sold wares to men in a way that they sexualized? Source: "The connection between women selling merchandise and selling themselves was already an old one in the nineteenth century. In eighteenth century Paris successful shopkeepers elicited fears that such sexualized commerce would lure all the male customers to the women's shops. With their multitude of young, female stall keepers, bazaars evoked similar anxieties. Even the charity bazaars held by genteel women were viewed as sites of marriage market commerce if not direct sexual commerce." "In Stevenson's 1866 allegory of the Charity bazaar he explain: 'And all this is not to be sold by your common Shopkeepers, intent on small and legitimate profits, but by Ladies and Gentlemen, who would as soon think of picking your pocket..., as of selling one of these many interesting, beautiful, rare, quaint, comical, and necessary articles at less than twice its market value." "Seeing and being seen, display of oneself, ranked in importance with display of one's articles and or fancy articles..." (Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England) "However, circulating her own name as a specifically marketed product can risk implications of circulating herself in a public sphere. This threatens acquiring a reputation as a "public woman," a prostitute. Even charity work could carry the implications of moral taint when it overlapped with the world of commerce. As Gary R. Dyer states in his exploration of the charity bazaar in Vanity Fair, "Observers [of the Soho Square bazaar established in 1816] assumed . . . that the bazaars naturally would become sites of prostitution." As he goes on to explain, the bazaars became places where women could display themselves as well as their goods, so that "[p]eople perceived the women working in these temporary bazaars as the real merchandise."" ("The Charity Bazaar and Women's Professionalization in Charlotte Mary Yonge's The Daisy Chain")

• Reviewed: WVOK (AM)
• Comment: this page used to be a redirect to a Histeria! character. I rewrote it to be about the Victorian sales event. The source given for the hooks unfortunately does not have page numbers, but searching for a phrase in the Google book should be sufficient to verify it.

Created by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Self-nominated at 21:08, 23 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

• Hi Rachel Helps (BYU), I will review this article. epicgenius (talk) 13:18, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

General eligibility:

• New enough:
• Long enough:
• Other problems: - The article is new enough but I think you would need to ask for a history split at
  Charity Bazaar page but with a redirect to the lowercase Charity bazaar
  page.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 13:18, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

• I got the history split. Thank you!Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 19:08, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]