The wedding present : domestic life beyond consumption / by Louise Purbrick.
The wedding present : domestic life beyond consumption / by Louise Purbrick.
The wedding present : domestic life beyond consumption / by Louise Purbrick.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Call Numbers
N392.5/79
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Making homes and worlds : marriage and consumption -- Objects of approval -- China and pyrex : the practices of preservation -- Accounting for change : forgotten, neglected, and altered objects -- The list : domesticity, conformity, and class -- Methods : mass-observation -- Afterword:...
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Publisher
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2007.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"The author tests the assumption that consuming creates individual identities, by considering how the specific contexts in which consumption occurs, such as married domesticity, can limit possible versions of selfhood. Thus, The Wedding Present, offers up an argument that consumption cannot be isolated as an explanation of individual or social form...
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Full title
The wedding present : domestic life beyond consumption / by Louise Purbrick.
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General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
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Call Numbers
N392.5/79
Record Identifier
74VKOLR00E8b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKOLR00E8b
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ISBN
9780754644729 (alk. paper)
0754644723 (alk. paper)
DDC
392.5
MMS ID
991022512469702626
