Consuming Families

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Consuming Families is written by Jo Lindsay and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136775153 (ISBN 10) and 9781136775154 (ISBN 13).

This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social networking, viral marketing – that put pressure on families as the social, economic and regulatory environments of consumption change.