Gender and consumption : domestic cultures and the commercialisation of everyday life /
Casey, Emma.
Martens, Lydia.
Aldershot ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Getting and spending : the gendering of 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 Reid -- Making sameness : mothering, commerce, and the culture of children's birthday parties / Alison 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.
Women
Women
Women consumers.
Consumption (Economics)
Home economics.