Maureen O'Dougherty

Consumption Intensified

The Politics of Middle-Class Daily Life in Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

"An outstanding book. . . . The first extensive treatment in English of the problems of Brazilian modernity and consumerism."--Richard Wilk, Indiana University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328940
• ISBN-10: 0822328941
• Artikelnr.: 21909170

Autorenporträt

Maureen O’Dougherty is a Research Fellow at the Institute on Race and Poverty, University of Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
> Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Dream Class is Over: Home Ownership, Consumption, and
(Re)definitions of Middle-Class Identity
2. Shopping Nightmares, Banking Games, Government Packages: Local Shopping
During Inflation
3. The Discrete Sales of the Middle Class: Gender and Generation in a
Globalizing Economy
4. The International in Daily Life: Of Debutantes and Disney
5. International Bargain Shopping and the Making of Modernity
6. Delivering the Crisis: The Media and the Middle Class through the Collor
Years
7. The Middle Class versus the Nation: Discourses of Region/Race and
Morality
8. Deliverance: An End to Inflation and the Promise of Neoliberalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index