Women, consumption and paradox. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Timothy de Waal Malefyt, Maryann McCabe.
• Editors: Malefyt, Timothy de Waal; McCabe, Maryann
• Contents: Introduction: Women, consumption and paradox Timothy de Waal Malefyt and Maryann McCabe Part I: Gender engagements, consumption interactions and marketplace ambiguities 1. Women and chocolate: identity narratives of sensory and sensual enjoyment Maryann McCabe and Timothy de Waal Malefyt 2. ‘Shapewear or nothing to wear’: the ambiguity of shapewear in the plus-size fashion market Daiane Scaraboto and Maria Carolina Zanette 3. Creating interactional alignment in call center customer care Margaret H. Szymanski, Patricia Wall and Jennifer Watts-Englert 4. Financial technology and the gender gap: designing and delivering services for women Erin B. Taylor and Anette Broløs 5. Being connected: mobile phones in the lives of domestic workers in Mexico City Carmen Bueno and Sandra Alarcón 6. Untangling women’s braided relationships with music Barbara Olsen Part II: Histories of gender imageries and practices in flux 7. Women under control: advertising and the business of female health, 1890-1950 Marina Frid and Everardo Rocha 8. Company uniforms and gender dynamics in the Japanese workplace Tomoko Hamada 9. Women’s consumption of cosmetic products in China: between logistics, conflict and symbolism Dominique Desjeux and Yang Xiao Min 10. Shifts and paradoxes of gender over the course of a career Patricia Sunderland 11. Little luxuries: decency, deservingness and delight Russell Belk
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 339.47082; Women consumers; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects; Advertising and women; Marketing -- Sex differences
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000052992; 9781000052978; 9781000052985; 9781003028109
• Related ISBNs: 9780367463144; 9780367186128
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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