ABSTRACT

Gendering Theory in Marketing and Consumer Research showcases state-of-the-art scholarship on gender in the field of marketing and consumer research. The book presents seven original contributions by a group of internationally renowned academics, who take up the task of theorising gender and gendering theory in new ways, accommodating recent intersectional, material-discursive, and practice-oriented theorisations. Connecting the study of marketing and consumer behaviour to different theoretical perspectives on gender, the contributors explore and critically examine the gendered nature and dimensions of contemporary marketplace activity. Through innovative conceptual development and insightful empirical analyses, the book offers important scholarly contributions to the literature on gender, marketing, and consumer research, and advances our understanding of gender as lived experience and socially regulated performance. It also frequently employ an intersectionalist perspective, theorising gender as only a part of one’s subject position, which is constituted by mutually reinforcing categories. The book will be essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners who are interested in the implications and contemporary manifestations of gender as a cultural category in the marketplace. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Marketing Management.

chapter 1|4 pages

The abject single: exploring the gendered experience of singleness in Britain

Ai-Ling Lai, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK School of Management, University of Leicester, UK Matthew Higgins, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK

chapter |15 pages

Analysis

chapter 2|19 pages

Gendered reading of the body in the bed

Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lapland, Finland Elina Na¨rva¨nen, School of Management, University of Tampere, Finland

chapter 3|9 pages

Fashionably voluptuous: normative femininity and resistant performative tactics in fatshion blogs

Department of Management Studies, Unit of Organizational Communication, Aalto University School of Business, Finland Annamari Huovinen, Department of Management Studies, Unit of

chapter 4|1 pages

Reframing gender and feminist knowledge construction in marketing and consumer research: missing feminisms and the case of men and masculinities

Management and Organisation, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Gender Studies, O¨rebro University, Sweden;

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

chapter 5|6 pages

Masculinising domesticity: an investigation of men’s domestic foodwork

Marcus Klasson, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden Sofia Ulver, School of Economics and Management, Lund University, Sweden

chapter |18 pages

Methodology

chapter 6|19 pages

Marketing the female politician: an exploration of gender and appearance

Minita Sanghvi, Department of Management and Business, Skidmore College, USA Nancy Hodges, Department of Consumer, Apparel and Retail Studies, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA

chapter |11 pages

Methodology

chapter |6 pages

Acknowledgements

chapter |3 pages

References

chapter 10|3 pages

COMMENTARY Feminism’s fourth wave: a research agenda for marketing and consumer research

Pauline Maclaran, School of Management, Royal Holloway University

chapter |2 pages

Intersectionality and identity

chapter |2 pages

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