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Consumer Culture and Personal Finance

Money Goes to Market

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  • © 2010

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Authors:
  1. Jacqueline Botterill

    1. Brock University, Canada

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Part of the book series: Consumption and Public Life (CUCO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 1-22

  3. Prudent Investment and Modest Consumption

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 23-43

  4. Women, Home, Consumption, Lending, and Ill Repute

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 44-74

  5. Hire Purchase, Home Furnishings, and the Cult of Domesticity

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 75-99

  6. Gentlemanly Bankers Adopt a New Set of Manners

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 100-131

  7. Big Bang Banking

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 132-156

  8. The Press Takes on Personal Debt

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 157-169

  9. Three Personal Finance Discourses

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 170-196

  10. Personal Financial Identities in Psychology and Popular Literature

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 197-215

  11. Conclusion

    • Jacqueline Botterill
    Pages 216-224

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 225-253
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This book explores the personal savings and credit discourses surrounding post-war British consumer culture. This cultural history highlights the contradictory meanings of home ownership, domesticity, women's consumerism, and banking deregulation that underwrote unprecedented financial crisis and consumer indebtedness.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Brock University, Canada

    Jacqueline Botterill

About the author

JACQUELINE BOTTERILL is Assistant Professor of Communication, Popular Culture and Film at Brock University, Canada. She is co-author of The Dynamics of Advertising (with Barry Richards and Iain MacRury), Social Communication in Advertising, (with William Leiss, Stephen Kline, Sut Jhally) along with numerous articles relating to the cultural analysis of marketing, promotion and economic processes.

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