Consuming Families: Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Consuming Families: Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

by JaneMareeMaher (Author), JoLindsay (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 198
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 16 Apr 2013

ISBN 10: 0415899214
ISBN 13: 9780415899215

Author Bio
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.