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A theory of grocery shopping : food, choice and conflict /

by Koch, Shelley L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Berg, 2012Edition: English ed.Description: x, 134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780857851505 (hbk.); 0857851500 (hbk.); 9780857851512 (pbk.); 0857851519 (pbk.); 9780857851536 (ebook : Individual); 0857851535 (ebook : Individual).Subject(s): Grocery shopping -- United States | Grocery shopping -- Social aspects -- United States | Food industry and trade -- Social aspects -- United States | Consumers -- United States -- Psychology | Supermarkets -- United States
Contents:
1. The economic and social context of grocery shopping -- 2. The work of grocery shopping -- 3. Shopping and the nutrition discourse -- 4. The efficient housewife discourse -- 5. The consumer control discourse -- 6. Competing discourses and the work of food shopping.
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TX356 K634 2012 (Browse shelf) Available 00007424
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-128) and index

1. The economic and social context of grocery shopping -- 2. The work of grocery shopping -- 3. Shopping and the nutrition discourse -- 4. The efficient housewife discourse -- 5. The consumer control discourse -- 6. Competing discourses and the work of food shopping.


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