Getting Loose
ISBN: 9780822389514
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Nineteen seventies.; Popular culture; Consumption (Economics); Lifestyles;

Examines the changing character of American consumer culture in the 1960s, 70s, and late 20th century generally, driven by changing forms of identity, notably a "loosening" of the self, by which Binkley means to evoke a wide range of identity pr

Sam Binkley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Emerson College.
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