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Authenticity guaranteed : masculinity and the rhetoric of anti-consumerism in American culture / Sally Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Sally, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst ; Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Americans love to hate consumerism.Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the "real" things in life, including self-determination and individualism.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Fantasies of Authenticity: Masculinity, Feminization, and Anti-Consumerist Critique
- Chapter 2. Authentic Individuals and Organization Men: Masculine Protest in the 1950s
- Chapter 3. Shopping for the Real: Anti-Consumerism and the Gender Politics of Postmodern Critique
- Chapter 4. The Real Deal: Fighting the Feminizations of Consumer Culture
- Chapter 5. To Shop or not to Shop: Consumerist Anti-Consumerism and the Production of Guilty Pleasure
- Coda
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-594-0
- OCLC:
- 1011551175
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