Sam Binkley

Getting Loose

Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s

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Produktbeschreibung

""Getting Loose" is a work of historical sociology that both draws on and challenges central theoretical perspectives on consumption and consumer culture, identity, postmodernism and late modernity, post-Fordism, and contemporary moral culture through exceptionally creative analyses of 1970s lifestyle philosophies and practices."--Don Slater, author of "Consumer Culture and Modernity"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339731
• ISBN-10: 0822339730
• Artikelnr.: 22518816

Autorenporträt

Sam Binkley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emerson College. Visit the author’s blog.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction / Mediated Immediacy: Living in the Now 1
Part I / Middle Class in the Maelstrom
1. Of Swingers and Organization Men: Loose Modernities 27
2. Experts Unbound: Intimate Professionals and the Value of Lifestyle 77
3. Book as Tool: Lifestyle Print Culture and the West Coast Publishing Boom
101
Part II / Caring Texts
4. Being One: From Knowledge to Consciousness in the Spaceship Society 129
5. Loving Each Other: From Phony to Real in the New Togetherness 165
6. Letting It All Hang Out: From Mind to Muscle in the Relaxed Body 207
Conclusion / Morning in America: Pulling in the Slack 243
Notes 251
Bibliography 263
Index 287