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Contradictions of consumption : concepts, practices, and politics in consumer society / Tim Edwards.

By: Edwards, Tim, 1963-.
Publisher: Buckingham [England] : Open University Press, 2000Description: 204 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0335199178 (pbk.); 9780335199174 (pbk.).Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) | Consumer behaviorDDC classification: 339.47
Contents:
1. Conceptions of consumption - 2. From here to modernity - contemporary theories of consumer society - 3. Marketing, advertising and the construction of the contemporary consumer - 4. Never-never land - social policy, social divisions and consumer society - 5. Rapture or torture - the contelorary nature of shopping - 6. Expression, oppression and the politics of consumption - 7. Consuming passions - fashion and consumer society - 8. Consumer futures - consumer society and postmodernity - Conclusion: hunger and desire in consumer society.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-201) and index.

1. Conceptions of consumption - 2. From here to modernity - contemporary theories of consumer society - 3. Marketing, advertising and the construction of the contemporary consumer - 4. Never-never land - social policy, social divisions and consumer society - 5. Rapture or torture - the contelorary nature of shopping - 6. Expression, oppression and the politics of consumption - 7. Consuming passions - fashion and consumer society - 8. Consumer futures - consumer society and postmodernity - Conclusion: hunger and desire in consumer society.