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Cultures of consumption : masculinities and social space in late twentieth-century Britain
- Title
- Cultures of consumption : masculinities and social space in late twentieth-century Britain / Frank Mort.
- Author
- Mort, Frank.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HF5415.33.G7 M67 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality. [from publisher's advertisement].
- Series Statement
- Comedia
- Uniform Title
- Comedia.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1950-1996
- Consumer behavior > Sex differences > History > Great Britain > 20th century
- Consumption (Economics) > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Consumer behavior > Sex differences
- Consumption (Economics)
- Economic history
- Mann
- Verbraucherverhalten
- Beeldvorming
- Mannelijkheid
- Sekseverschillen
- Sociale identiteit
- Consumer behavior > Great Britain > Sex differences > History > 20th century
- Masculinity > Great Britain
- Consommation > Grande-Bretagne > 20e siècle
- Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Grande-Bretagne > Conditions économiques > 1945- ..
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-264) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Narratives of Consumption -- pt. 1. The Cultural Authority of Style. 1. New Men and New Markets. 2. A Guide to Modern Living or 'I bet you haven't heard of The Face'. 3. A Visual Philosopher: Neville Brody. 4. A Gallery of Talented Individualists. 5. The Sexual Politics of Style. 6. A Homosocial Gaze: Ray Petri. 7. A Community of Men. 8. Feminine Exclusions. 9. Moving into the Mainstream -- pt. 2. Commercial Epistemologies: Advertising, Marketing and Retailing since the 1950s. 1. Advertising: The Dynamism of Commercial Society. 2. The Age of Creativity. 3. Creative People Mark Two. 4. Splinter Groups, Factions and Tribes. 5. Bartle Bogle Hegarty: An Agency with 'Attitude'. 6. Gender Trouble. 7. Next for Men. 8. Plus ca Change? Commerce and Masculinity in the 1950s. 9. Montague Burton, the 'Tailor of Taste'. 10. Conclusion -- pt. 3. Topographies of Taste: Place, Space and Identity in 1980s London. 1. London Metropolis: The Spaces of Consumption.
- ISBN
- 041503051X
- 9780415030519
- 0415030528
- 9780415030526
- LCCN
- 95021633
- OCLC
- ocm32589512
- 32589512
- SCSB-2084299
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library