Gender And Consumption

Author : Lydia Martens,Emma Casey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317130789

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Gender and Consumption by Lydia Martens,Emma Casey Pdf

Drawing upon anthropological, sociological and historical perspectives, this volume provides a unique insight into women’s domestic consumption. The contributors argue that domestic consumption represents an important lens through which to examine the everyday production and reproduction of socio-economic relations. Through a variety of case studies (such as gambling, wedding day consumption and bedroom décor), the essays 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.

Author : Victoria De Grazia,Ellen Furlough
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520200349

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The Sex of Things by Victoria De Grazia,Ellen Furlough Pdf

"A rare pleasure. Rooting gender and consumption in the actions of people making their own history, these brilliant essays move from nineteenth-century pinups to the formation of gendered modernity. Once you've savored this volume, you'll never think of modern life in the same way again."--Temma Kaplan, author of Red City, Blue Period

Author : Jane Whittle,Elizabeth Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191623639

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Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth-Century Household by Jane Whittle,Elizabeth Griffiths Pdf

Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610-1654. Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths have used the Le Stranges' rich archive to reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not only at purchases, but also at home production and gifts; and not only at the luxurious, but at the everyday consumption of food and medical care. Consumption is viewed not just as a set of objects owned, but as a process involving household management, acquisition and appropriation, a process that created and reinforced social links with craftsmen, servants, labourers, and the local community. It is argued that the county gentry provide a missing link in histories of consumption: connecting the fashions of London and the royal court, with those of middling strata of rural England. Recent writing has focused upon the transformation of consumption patterns in the eighteenth century. Here the earlier context is illuminated and, instead of tradition and stability, we find constant change and innovation. Issues of gender permeate the study. Consumption is often viewed as a female activity and the book looks in detail at who managed the provisioning, purchases, and work within the household, how spending on sons and daughters differed, and whether men and women attached different cultural values to household goods. This single household's economy provides a window into some of most significant cultural and economic issues of early modern England: innovations in trade, retail and production, the basis of gentry power, social relations in the countryside, and the gendering of family life.

Author : Cele C. Otnes,Linda Tuncay Zayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136463488

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Gender, Culture, and Consumer Behavior by Cele C. Otnes,Linda Tuncay Zayer Pdf

This book covers the gamut of topics related to gender and consumer culture. Changing gender roles have forced scholars and practitioners to re-examine some of the fundamental assumptions and theories in this area. Gender is a core component of identity and thus holds significant implications for how consumers behave in the marketplace. This book offers innovative research in gender and consumer behavior with topics relevant to psychology, marketing, advertising, sociology, women’s studies and cultural studies. It offers 16 chapters of cutting-edge research on gender, international culture and consumption. Unique to this volume is its emphasis on consumption and masculinity and inclusion of topics on a rapidly changing world of issues related to culture and gender in advertising, communications, psychology and consumer behavior.

Author : Jennifer R. Scanlon,Jennifer Scanlon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814781319

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The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader by Jennifer R. Scanlon,Jennifer Scanlon Pdf

In this consumer culture studies anthology, 23 reprinted essays (1934-98) consider both the empowering and disempowering elements of consumerism. In her introduction, Scanlon (women's studies, Plattsburgh State U. of New York) views consumer culture as a collaborative process, not simply a matter of perpetrators and victims. The themes the essays address are: stretching the boundaries of the domestic sphere; you are what you buy; the message makers; and sexuality, pleasure and resistance in consumer culture. The book features bandw illustrations promoting the cults of domesticity and identity through proper consumption. It lacks an index. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Roger Horowitz,Arwen Mohun
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813918022

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His and Hers by Roger Horowitz,Arwen Mohun Pdf

This volume will be of interest to historians in a wide range of fields.

Author : Alison Adam,Eileen Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134570058

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Virtual Gender by Alison Adam,Eileen Green Pdf

As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life. A line-up of authors from around the world looks at the gender and technology issues related to leisure, pleasure and consumption, identity and self. Their research is set against a backcloth of renewed interest in citizenship and ethics and how these concepts are recreated in an on-line situation, particularly in local settings. With chapters on subjects ranging from gender-switching on-line, computer games, and cyberstalking to the use of the domestic telephone, this stimulating collection challenges the stereotype of woman as a passive victim of technology. It offers new ways of looking at the many dimensions in which ICTs can be said to be gendered and will be a rich resource for students and teachers in this expanding field of study.

Author : Terrence H. Witkowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317385424

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A History of American Consumption by Terrence H. Witkowski Pdf

The United States has been near the forefront of global consumption trends since the 1700s, and for the past century and more, Americans have been the world’s foremost consuming people. Informed and inspired by the literature from consumer culture theory, as well as drawing from numerous studies in social and cultural history, A History of American Consumption tells the story of the American consumer experience from the colonial era to the present, in three cultural threads. These threads recount the assignment of meaning to possessions and consumption, the gendered ideology and allocation of consumption roles, and resistance through anti-consumption thought and action. Brief but scholarly, this book provides a thought provoking, introduction to the topic of American consumption history informed by research in consumer culture theory. By examining and explaining the core phenomenon of product consumption and its meaning in the changing lives of Americans over time, it provides a valuable contribution to the literature on the subjects of consumption and its causes and consequences. Readable and insightful, it will be of interest to scholars and advanced students in consumer behaviour, advertising, and marketing and business history.

Author : Elisabeth Tissier-Desbordes,Luca M. Visconti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000289121

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Gender After Gender in Consumer Culture by Elisabeth Tissier-Desbordes,Luca M. Visconti Pdf

Gender After Gender in Consumer Culture provides an updated discussion of how gender cuts across consumer culture, in light of increasing gender fragmentation and integration with other identity positions. Sex, the biological distinction male/female, and gender, which refers to a person’s sense of being male, female, or any other combinations of these, inform issues as varied as personal identity, social interactions, and market behaviours. First, contributions account for the increasing fluidity and/or fragmentation of gender positions, which reshape the interplay between consumers and marketers. Second, they provide a timely illustration of how consumption and markets concur in contrasting gender inequalities, taken both individually and jointly (e.g., at the intersection of ethnicity or positions of market marginalisation). Third, chapters question the role of gender in granting personal and societal well-being, as they reflect on the collective capacity of constantly undoing gender stereotypes. Focusing on gender, this book allows the reader to trace the links among cultural categories (e.g. masculinity, femininity, gender identity), social phenomena, and market (dis)functioning. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the journal Consumption Markets & Culture.

Author : Martens
Publisher : Open University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0335205429

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Gender and Consumption by Martens Pdf

Author : Dieter Bögenhold,Farah Naz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030062033

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Consumption and Life-Styles by Dieter Bögenhold,Farah Naz Pdf

This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term ‘consumption’ is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in a variety of ways. Consumption research asks how earnings and spending are related to each other. More generally, consumption research investigates how people, social classes or societies realize their consumption practices. The question of how consistent preference structures are due to changing empirical backgrounds of time, space and related culture is frequently asked. Which context variables (historical time, geographical framework, cultural background) specify the practice of consumption and in which way do attributes such as age, gender, class, occupation and life-style have their own impacts on the way in which consumption is realised? This book will be of interest to researchers working in economics, sociology, marketing, aesthetics and design, anthropology and communication studies.

Author : Timothy de Waal Malefyt,Maryann McCabe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000052992

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Women, Consumption and Paradox by Timothy de Waal Malefyt,Maryann McCabe Pdf

Women are the world’s most powerful consumers, yet they are largely marketed to erroneously through misconceptions and patriarchal views that distort the reality of women’s lives, bodies, and work. This book examines the contradictions and mismatches between women’s everyday experiences and market representations. It considers how women themselves exhibit paradoxical behaviour in both resisting and supporting conflicting messages. The volume emphasizes paradox as a form of agency and negotiation through which women develop dialogical meanings. The contributions highlight the ways in which women transform inconsistencies and contradictions in advertising and marketing, global consumption practices, and material consumption into positive practices for living. The rich range of ethnographic accounts, drawn from countries including the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Denmark, Japan, and China, provide readers with a valuable perspective on consumer behaviour.

Author : Margit Keller,Bente Halkier,Terhi-Anna Wilska,Monica Truninger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317380900

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Routledge Handbook on Consumption by Margit Keller,Bente Halkier,Terhi-Anna Wilska,Monica Truninger Pdf

Consumption research is burgeoning across a wide range of disciplines. The Routledge Handbook on Consumption gathers experts from around the world to provide a nuanced overview of the latest scholarship in this expanding field. At once ambitious and timely, the volume provides an ideal map for those looking to position their work, find new analytic insights and identify research gaps. With an intuitive thematic structure and resolutely international outlook, it engages with theory and methodology; markets and businesses; policies, politics and the state; and culture and everyday life. It will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social and economic sciences.

Author : Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004355095

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Women, Consumption, and the Circulation of Ideas in South-Eastern Europe, 17th - 19th Centuries by Constanţa Vintilă-Ghiţulescu Pdf

Women, fashion, consumption, luxury, and education are the main subjects of our researchers. The contributors of this volume accompanied women and objects in their travels across Modern Europe and offered thorough and diverse analyses connecting the circulation of people with the circulation of ideas. Making use of archive materials, visual sources and museum collections, the authors point out the richness of the region and the role of women in promoting new ideas of modernity. This will help the public to better know and understand the importance of women's sociability in building new nations and constructing new identities in South-Eastern Europe and beyond.

Author : Susan Dobscha
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781788115384

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Handbook of Research on Gender and Marketing by Susan Dobscha Pdf

Susan Dobscha and the authors in this Handbook provide a primer and resource for scholars and practitioners keen to develop or enhance their understanding of how gender permeates marketing decisions, consumer experiences, public policy initiatives, and market practices.