Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Emma Casey and Lydia Martens -- Class, gender and domestic consumption in Britain, 1920-1950 / Judy Giles -- The feminist and the cook : Julia Child, Betty Friedan, and domestic femininity / Joanne Hollows -- Gender and the destalinization of consumer taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev / Susan E. Reid -- Making sameness : mothering, commerce and the culture of children's birthday parties / Alison J. Clarke -- Perceptions of commercialised social introduction services amongst women / Jacqueline Davidson -- Consuming pleasure on the wedding day : the lived experience of being a bride / Sharon Boden -- Gambling and everyday life : working class mothers and domestic spaces of consumption / Emma Casey -- Gender, class, emotional capital and consumption in family life / Elizabeth B. Silva -- The sensory home as a site of consumption : everyday laundry practices and the production of gender / Sarah Pink -- Consumption and sexual intimacy : towards an understanding of intimate cultures in everyday life / Dana Wilson-Kovacs -- Gender at play : décor differences between boys' and girls' bedrooms / Irene Cieraad -- Afterword : gender, consumer culture and promises of bettermen in late modernity / Lydia Martens and Emma Casey.

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