Gender and consumption : domestic cultures and the commercialisation of everyday life / edited by Emma Casey and Lydia Martens.

Other author Casey, Emma.
Other author Martens, Lydia.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Descriptionix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Introduction / Emma Casey and Lydia Martens -- Class, gender and domestic consumption in Britain, 1920-1950 / Judy Giles -- The feminist and the cook : Julia Child, Betty Friedan, and domestic femininity / Joanne Hollows -- Gender and the destalinization of consumer taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev / Susan E. Reid -- Making sameness : mothering, commerce and the culture of children's birthday parties / Alison J. Clarke -- Perceptions of commercialised social introduction services amongst women / Jacqueline Davidson -- Consuming pleasure on the wedding day : the lived experience of being a bride / Sharon Boden -- Gambling and everyday life : working class mothers and domestic spaces of consumption / Emma Casey -- Gender, class, emotional capital and consumption in family life / Elizabeth B. Silva -- The sensory home as a site of consumption : everyday laundry practices and the production of gender / Sarah Pink -- Consumption and sexual intimacy : towards an understanding of intimate cultures in everyday life / Dana Wilson-Kovacs -- Gender at play : décor differences between boys' and girls' bedrooms / Irene Cieraad -- Afterword : gender, consumer culture and promises of bettermen in late modernity / Lydia Martens and Emma Casey.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006025024
ISBN0754643867 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780754643869 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HQ1154 .G378 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold