Emma-Jayne Abbots, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK. Katherine Appleford, Kingston University, UK.Colin Creighton, University of Hull, UK. Rachel Hurdley, Cardiff University, UK. Siân Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. C. Laura Lovin, London South Bank University, UK.Julie Seymour, Hull York Medical School, UK. Emma Waight, University of Southampton, UK. Sarah Wilson, University of Stirling, UK.Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester, UK.

• Introduction; Emma Casey and Yvette Taylor PART I: EXPANDING THE FIELD: CONCEPTUALISING INTIMATE CONSUMPTION 1. Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s; Colin Creighton 2. Buying the Ties that Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador; Emma-Jayne Abbots 3. Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen's 'Fin de Siecle Splendor'; C. Laura Lovin PART II: 'STICKY' AND SHIFTING SITES OF INTIMATE CONSUMPTION 4. 'My Bedroom is Me': Young people, Private Space and the Family Home; Sian Lincoln 5. The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes; Julie Seymour 6. Belonging in Difficult Family Circumstances: Emotions, Intimacies and Consumption; Sarah Wilson 7. 'You're not Going Out Dressed Like That!': Lessons in Fashion, Consumption, Taste and Class; Katherine Appleford PART III: THE INTIMATE SOCIAL LIFE OF COMMODITIES 8. Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Home, Identity and Belonging in a Workplace; Rachel Hurdley 9. Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods; Emma Waight 10.The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves; Sophie Woodward

'This is a really superb and original collection of essays and articles. Under the umbrella of critical consumption studies, the book brings together scholars from a range of disciplines whose rigorous research and conceptual insight opens up new avenues for understanding how families and young people, especially those from disadvantaged social groups are forced to negotiate pathways through "austerity times", without losing attachment to the emotional life of objects and items. This is a volume which will be remarkably useful to academics and students alike across the arts, humanities and social sciences.' -Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK