Title: Gender and consumption : domestic cultures and the commercialisation of everyday life /
Authors: Casey, Emma.; Martens, Lydia
Publisher: Ashgate,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Women Social life and customs; Women Social conditions; Women consumers.; Consumption (Economics) Social aspects.; Home economics.
Abstract: "Drawing from anthropological, sociological and historical perspectives, the chapters provide varied case studies from gambling, consuming pleasure on the wedding day, to decor differences in boys' and girls' bedrooms. They explore and reconsider the nature of public and private spaces, and the subsequent nature of domestic space, often by challenging traditional notions of what constitutes 'the domestic'." "The volume demonstrates the broad range of experiences that domestic consumption offers women and reveals some of the complex meanings and motivations underpinning women's consumption practices."--BOOK JACKET.
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.