Stevi Jackson, Shaun Moores

The Politics of Domestic Consumption

Critical Readings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Reader brings together a broad range of critical work on on the everday practices and power relations of domestic consumption -drawing on material from sociology, women's studies and media and cultural studies. The book is divided into five main sections - on economics, food and clothing, leisure and media reception, household technologies, and the construction of home - and its selcted contributions examine the social dynamics of gender: generation, class and ethnicisty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 175mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780134333434
• ISBN-10: 0134333438
• Artikelnr.: 24284779

Autorenporträt

Stevi Jackson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. Shaun Moores is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Economics of DomesticConsumption. Sharing the Same Table
Consumption and the Family. I'm Hungry Mum: The Politics of Domestic
Bugeting Household Spending. Personal Spending are the Control of Money in
Marriage. Money Patterns of Responsibility in Marriage Money, Money, Money.
The Significance of Food and Clothing in Family Life. It's a Pleasure to
Cook for Him: Food, Mealtimes and Gender in some South Wales Households.
Food and Family Ideology, Gender and the Gift. The Case of Family Clothing
Economy. The Power Relations of Leisure and Media Reception. Leisure and
the Household. Housewives and the Mass Media. The Act of Reading the
Romance. The Gendered Framework of Family Viewing . Technology and
Tradition: Audio-visual Culture among South Asian Families in West London
Leisure. Lifestyle and the Construction of Social Position. The Uses and
Interpretations of Household Technologies. Black and Decker versus
Moulinex. Domestic Technology:
Labour-Saving or Enclaving? Technology in the Domestic Environment.
Contextualising Home Computing: Resources and Practice. The Gendered Use of
the Telephone. An Australian Case Study. The Cultural Construction of Home.
My Own Fireside. The Creation of The Middle-Class Home. Inside Pram Town: A
Case Study of Harlow House Interiors 1951-61. Gender and the Construction
of Home Life. Popular Tast and Erudite. Repertoire: The Place and Space of
Television in Brazil. Home Decoration as Popular Culture Constructing
Homes, Gender and Classes in Norway.