Longing and belonging : parents, children, and consumer culture /

Main Author: Pugh, Allison J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Care and belonging in the market
  • Differences in common: studying inequality
  • Making do: children and the economy of dignity
  • Ambivalence and allowances: affluent parents respond
  • The alchemy of desire into need: dilemmas of low-income parenting
  • Saying no: resisting children's consumer desires
  • Consuming contexts, buying hope: shaping the pathways of children
  • Conclusion : Beyond the tyranny of sameness.