Jo Lindsay, Janemaree Maher

Consuming Families (eBook, ePUB)

Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues - childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, viral marketing - that put pressure on families as the social, economic and regulatory environments of consumption change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136775154
• Artikelnr.: 38274193

Autorenporträt

Jo Lindsay is Associate Professor in Sociology at Monash University.

JaneMaree Maher is the Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research at Monash University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Family Life and Consumption in the 21st Century 2.
Consuming Goods and Ideals in Family Life 3. Text Me: The "Mediation" of
Everyday Family Life 4. The "Big" Issues of Childhood: Family
Responsibility for Children's Weight 5. Youth Drinking and Family Alcohol
Cultures 6. Seeing It and Doing It: Young People, Families and Sex.
Conclusion: A New Purchase on Family Life. Appendix.