ABSTRACT
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 selected contributions examine the social dynamics of gender: generation, class and ethnicity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
The Economics of Domestic Consumption
part |47 pages
The Significance of Food and Clothing in Family Life
chapter |11 pages
‘It's a pleasure to cook for him’
Food, mealtimes and gender in some South Wales households
part |75 pages
The Power Relations of Leisure and Media Reception
chapter |13 pages
Technology and tradition
Audiovisual culture among South Asian families in West London
part |63 pages
The Uses and Interpretations of Household Technologies
part |61 pages
The Cultural Construction of Home
chapter |15 pages
Home decoration as popular culture
Constructing homes, genders and classes in Norway
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