Through a variety of case studies (such as gambling, wedding day consumption and bedroom décor), this volume provides a unique insight into women's domestic consumption. The essays demonstrate the broad range of experiences that domestic consumption offers women and reveal some of the complex meanings and motivations underpinning women's consumption practices.

Provides an insight into women's domestic consumption. Drawing from anthropological, sociological and historical perspectives, this work provides varied cases studies from gambling, consuming pleasure on the wedding day, to decor differences in boys' and girls' bedrooms.

'This interdisciplinary and feminist collection of essays, offering historical and ethnographic insights into women's relationships to consumption, enlivens our understanding of the commercialization of domestic space and of women's lives. The writers in this volume give women's actual practices of consumption the scholarly attention they deserve.' Jennifer Scanlon, Bowdoin College, USA 'This fascinating and varied collection of multidisciplinary essays brings a much needed gendered perspective to the study of consumption, drawing on the feminist tradition of work on women's domestic practices as well as contributing to debates on consumer culture. The essays offer fresh, new and empirically grounded insights into the practice and meanings of consumption in everyday life.' Stevi Jackson, University of York, UK