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  • The Moral Project of Childhood

    Motherhood, Material Life, and Early Children's Consumer Culture

    by Daniel Thomas Cook ...
    Examines the Protestant origins of motherhood and the child consumerThroughout history, the responsibility for children’s moral well-being has fallen into the laps of mothers. In The Moral Project of Childhood, the noted childhood studies scholar Daniel Thomas Cook illustrates how mothers in the nineteenth-century United States meticulously managed their children’s needs and wants, pleasures and ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $22.99 USD

  • The Commodification of Childhood

    The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer

    by Daniel Thomas Cook ...
    In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children’s consumer culture—and the commodification of childhood itself—by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children’s clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants, manufacturers, and advertisers of children’s clothing began to aim commercial messages at the child rather ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies

    Edited by Daniel Thomas Cook ...
    The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood.Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over ... Read more

    $777.59 USD

  • Reimagining Childhood Studies

    Edited by Professor Spyros Spyrou, Dr Rachel Rosen, Professor Daniel Thomas Cook ...
    Reimagining Childhood Studies incites, and provides a forum for, dialogue and debate about the direction and impetus for critical and global approaches to social-cultural studies of children and their childhoods. Set against the backdrop of a quarter century of research and theorising arising out of the “new” social studies of childhood, each of the 13 original contributions strives to extend the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • New Forms of Consumption

    Consumers, Culture, and Commodification

    by Mark Gottdiener, Jorge Arditi, Matthew D. Bramlett, Karen A. Cerulo, Daniel Thomas Cook, E Melanie DuPuis, Eugene Halton, Beverly Mullings, Minjoo Oh, Seth Ovadia0, Cotten Seiler1, Noam Shoval2, Mark Sloan3, George Ritzer4, Chris Rojek5 ...
    Series series Postmodern Social Futures
    Consumption as a field of cultural studies overlaps with theories of postmodernism, the social construction of self, commodification in late capitalism, and the role of mass media in daily life. New forms of consumption such as those facilitated by cyberspace, themed environments, the commodification of sex, and the increasing role of leisure in society all play new and interesting roles in daily ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

    by Benjamin R. Barber ...
    "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Hip Hop Dance

    Meanings and Messages

    by Carla Stalling Huntington ...
    Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Changing Fashion

    A Critical Introduction to Trend Analysis and Meaning

    by Annette Lynch, Mitchell Strauss ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Changing trends in fashion have always reflected large-scale social and cultural changes. Changing Fashion presents for the first time a multi-disciplinary approach to examining fashion change, bringing together theory from fashion studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and art history, amongst others.Ideal for the undergraduate student of fashion and cultural studies, the book has a ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    Was $27.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

    Edited by Graham Owen ...
    Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural academy in providing an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • 9.5 Theses on Art and Class

    by Ben Davis ...
    9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art's most persistent debates, from definitions of political art to the troubled status of "outsider" and street art to the question of how we maintain faith in art itself.Ben Davis currently lives and works in New York City where he is Executive Editor at ... Read more

    $12.99 USD