TY - BOOK AU - Edwards,Tim TI - Contradictions of consumption: concepts, practices, and politics in consumer society SN - 0335199178 (pbk.) U1 - 339.47 PY - 2000/// CY - Buckingham [England] PB - Open University Press KW - Consumption (Economics) KW - Consumer behavior N1 - 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 ER -