17-18世纪英国女性消费经济分析

The Economic Analysis of Women Consumption of England in Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century

17-18世纪是英国消费社会形成和发展的关键时期,女性被当时的思想家、道德家、社会评论家等视为奢侈消费的主体,引发了广泛关注,受到了很多的批判和指责。从经济视角来看,当时女性在服饰消费、休闲娱乐消费、代理家庭消费等方面呈现出复杂的样态,并且女性消费者之间有很大的差异,但总体而言,女性并非挥霍财富的铺张浪费者。相反,她们的消费大多是合理的,且自身消费所占比例很小,更多的消费是用于家庭。

From 17th to 18th centuries,it was a crucial period for the formation and development of the British consumer society.Women were regarded as the subject of luxury consumption by the thinkers,moralists and social critics at that time,which attracted extensive attention and received a lot of criticism and accusation.From the economic perspective,women at that time showed a complex pattern in clothing consumption,leisure and entertainment consumption,surrogate household consumption and other aspects,and there were great differences among female consumers.However,in general,women were not wasteful spenders of wealth.On the contrary,most of their consumption is reasonable and their own consumption accounts for a small proportion as well the majority of spent was used for families.