Summary Of Undercover At The Bloomingdales Stry

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Jaclyn Geller’s “Undercover at the Bloomingdales’s Registry” explores the world of a bride to be and reflects on the experiences of a bride preparing for a new chapter in her life. Under the name Jackie, Geller steps inside the world of the soon-to-be married. Through these experiences and observations, Geller provides the reader with a glimpse at the different ways in which society encourages domesticity, companionship and romance upon women in a martial relationship. Upon entering the Bloomingdales’s Registry, Geller notes,“ Here the domestic woman takes her first faltering steps in wifely authority”. “ Here, soothing maternal wedding consultants school female consumers in the art of purchasing… selecting items to personalize those shires

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