Gender and Consumption

Abstract

Contents: Introduction, Emma Casey and Lydia Martens. Part 1 The Commercialisation of Domestic Life in Historical Perspective: Class, gender and domestic consumption in Britain 1920a 50, 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. Part 2 Private/Public Dynamics in Gender and Consumption: 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. Part 3 Gender and the Material Culture of the Domestic Sphere: 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: dA(c)cor differences between boys' and girls' bedrooms, Irene Cieraad. Afterword: gender, consumer culture and promises of betterment in late modernity, Lydia Martens and Emma Casey Index.