Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Emma Casey, Yvette Taylor.
• Editors: Casey, Emma; Dr, Taylor, Yvette
• Contents: Introduction; Emma Casey and Yvette Taylor; ; PART I: EXPANDING THE FIELD: CONCEPTUALISING INTIMATE CONSUMPTION; 1. Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s; Colin Creighton; 2. Buying the Ties that Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador; Emma-Jayne Abbots; 3. Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen's 'Fin de Siècle Splendor'; C. Laura Lovin; ; PART II: 'STICKY' AND SHIFTING SITES OF INTIMATE CONSUMPTION; 4. 'My Bedroom is Me': Young people, Private Space and the Family Home; Sian Lincoln; 5. The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes; Julie Seymour; 6. Belonging in Difficult Family Circumstances: Emotions, Intimacies and Consumption; Sarah Wilson; 7. 'You're not Going Out Dressed Like That!': Lessons in Fashion, Consumption, Taste and Class; Katherine Appleford; ; PART III: THE INTIMATE SOCIAL LIFE OF COMMODITIES; 8. Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Home, Identity and Belonging in a Workplace; Rachel Hurdley; 9. Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods; Emma Waight; 10.The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves; Sophie Woodward
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: Sociology/Marriage & Family; Family Relationships; Social, group or collective psychology; Sociology; Sociology: family & relationships; Material culture
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137429094; 1137429097
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