Politics of Domestic Consumption

Stevi Jackson is Professor and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK.Shaun Moores is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sunderland, UK.

• Introduction. The Economics of DomesticConsumption. Sharing the Same Table Consumption and the Family. I'm Hungry Mum: The Politics of Domestic Bugeting Household Spending. Personal Spending are the Control of Money in Marriage. Money Patterns of Responsibility in Marriage Money, Money, Money. The Significance of Food and Clothing in Family Life. It's a Pleasure to Cook for Him: Food, Mealtimes and Gender in some South Wales Households. Food and Family Ideology, Gender and the Gift. The Case of Family Clothing Economy. The Power Relations of Leisure and Media Reception. Leisure and the Household. Housewives and the Mass Media. The Act of Reading the Romance. The Gendered Framework of Family Viewing . Technology and Tradition: Audio-visual Culture among South Asian Families in West London Leisure. Lifestyle and the Construction of Social Position. The Uses and Interpretations of Household Technologies. Black and Decker versus Moulinex. Domestic Technology:Labour-Saving or Enclaving? Technology in the Domestic Environment. Contextualising Home Computing: Resources and Practice. The Gendered Use of the Telephone. An Australian Case Study. The Cultural Construction of Home. My Own Fireside. The Creation of The Middle-Class Home. Inside Pram Town: A Case Study of Harlow House Interiors 1951-61. Gender and the Construction of Home Life. Popular Tast and Erudite. Repertoire: The Place and Space of Television in Brazil. Home Decoration as Popular Culture Constructing Homes, Gender and Classes in Norway.