Books
Fashioning the Modern Woman in Britain, 1918-1928. Manuscript in process; completion date 2018.
Consuming Fantasies: Labor, Leisure, and the London Shopgirl, 1880-1920. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2006.
Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Modern Metropolis, a collection of essays co-edited with Amy Bingaman and Rebecca Zorach. London: Routledge, 2002.
Articles and Essays
“Fantasy, Desire, and Consumption in Romance Weeklies of the 1920s,” in Catherine Clay, Maria DiCenzo, Barbara Green, and Fiona Hackney, eds. Edinburgh Companion to Women’s Print Media in Interwar Britain (1918-1939). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2017.
“The Shopgirl and The ‘It Girl,'” in Godela Weiss-Sussex and Ulrike Zitzlsperger, eds. Tales of Commerce and Imagination: Literary and Cinematic Contributions to the Department Store Debate in the Early 20th Century. New York: Peter Lang, 2015.
“‘Equal Laws Based Upon An Equal Standard’: The Garrett Sisters, the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the Sexual Politics of Victorian and Edwardian Feminism Revisited,” Women’s History Review 24:3 (June 2015): 389-409.
“Melodrama, Sensation, and the Discourse of Modernity in ‘Love and the Bioscope’,” in Andrew Shail, ed. Reading the Cinematograph. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2011. [Review]
“Consuming Nigella,” in Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows, eds. Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture. New York and London: Routledge, 2009.
Entries on “Bicycles,” “Marriage and Divorce,” “Retail Clerks,” “Spinsters,” and “Urbanization.” Pendergast, Tom, and Sara Pendergast, editors; James Eli Adams, editor-in-chief. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. 4 vols. Danbury, CT: Grolier Academic Press, 2004.
“‘Feminists Love a Utopia’: Collaboration, Conflict, and the Futures of Feminism,” in Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford, eds. Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004; expanded 2nd ed., 2007.
“Cultureofmodeling.com” and “The Brontë Sisters,” entries in the Bitch List, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, ed. Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler. Summer and Fall 2003.
“‘Indecent Incentives to Vice’: Regulating Films and Audience Behavior from the 1890s to the 1910s,” in Andrew Higson, ed. Young and Innocent? Cinema and Britain, 1896-1930. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2002.
“The Failures of the Romance: Boredom, Class and Desire in George Gissing’s The Odd Women and W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage,” Modern Fiction Studies 47:1 (March 2001): 190-228.
Book Reviews
Martin Hipksy, Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885-1925 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2011), Journal of British Studies 52:2 (2013): 547-548.
Rosy Aindow, Dress and Identity in British Literary Culture, 1870-1914 (Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2010), Victorian Studies 54:3 (2012): 549-551.
Alys Eve Weinbaum et al., The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization (Durham: Duke UP, 2008), Feminist Theory 12:3 (2011): 348.
Krista Lysack, Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing (Athens: Ohio UP, 2008), Victorian Studies 51:4 (2009): 765-66.