Consuming Families: Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century

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.

Author: Jo Lindsay, Janemaree Maher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/11/2013
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780415899215

About the Author

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.