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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Casey, Emma

Martens, Lydia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social life and customs--20th century.

Women--Social conditions--20th century.

Women consumers.

Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.

Home economics.

Consumption (Economics).

Women--Social conditions.

Women--Social life and customs.

Women.

Physical Description:

ix, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754643867

9780754643869

OCLC:

70839735