Consuming Families: Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780203555231
Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / Routledge
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Social Sciences; Sociology & Social Policy; Sociology of the Family; Gender Studies; Sociology of Culture;

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.


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.

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