Rachel Bowlby

Rachel bowlby's most recent book is Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future. She has written several books about the history and theory of consumer culture, including Juls Looking (on department stores), Carried Away (on )supermarkets. Other books bring together essays in feminist cultural criticism -- Shopping with Freud, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Everyday Stories; also Feminist Destinatiuons, about Virginia Woolf. Additionally, she has written two books about reproductive technologies and changing parental stories: Freudian Mythologies, and A Child of One's Own. At UCL, where she is Professor of Comparative Literature, she teaches courses on consumer culture and literature.