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.

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Brock University, Canada

Jacqueline Botterill

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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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Book Title: Consumer Culture and Personal Finance
Book Subtitle: Money Goes to Market
Authors: Jacqueline Botterill
Series Title: Consumption and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281189
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00867-0Published: 20 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28118-9Published: 20 January 2010
Series ISSN: 2947-8227
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8235
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 253
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social History, Cultural History, Sociology, general, Popular Science in Finance

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