Lisa Taylor

A Taste for Gardening

Classed and Gendered Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. Timely and original, it develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780754672210
• ISBN-10: 0754672212
• Artikelnr.: 45600817

Autorenporträt

Lisa Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. She has published widely in the field and is the co-author of the international best-selling textbook 'Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences' (with Andrew Willis, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: towards an ethnography of ordinary gardening
Histories and context
Gardening taste: theoretical concepts and framework
Garden legislators: gardening, ordinariness and history
Garden interpreters: garden lifestyle television and media culture
Class, taste and gardening
Gender and gardening
Questions of consumption: what ordinary gardeners do with garden 'lifestyle' media
Using sentimental capital: class, emotion and value
Bibliography
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.