Table of Contents
Introduction; Emma Casey and Yvette Taylor
PART I: EXPANDING THE FIELD: CONCEPTUALISING INTIMATE CONSUMPTION
1. Collective Action and Domestic Practices: England in the 1830s and 1840s; Colin Creighton
2. Buying the Ties that Bind: Consumption, Care and Intimate Investment among Transnational Households in Highland Ecuador; Emma-Jayne Abbots
3. Interconnectivities and Material Agencies: Consumption, Fashion, and Intimacy in Zhu Tianwen's 'Fin de Siècle Splendor'; C. Laura Lovin
PART II: 'STICKY' AND SHIFTING SITES OF INTIMATE CONSUMPTION
4. 'My Bedroom is Me': Young people, Private Space and the Family Home; Sian Lincoln
5. The Transgressive Potential of Families in Commercial Homes; Julie Seymour
6. Belonging in Difficult Family Circumstances: Emotions, Intimacies and Consumption; Sarah Wilson
7. 'You're not Going Out Dressed Like That!': Lessons in Fashion, Consumption, Taste and Class; Katherine Appleford
PART III: THE INTIMATE SOCIAL LIFE OF COMMODITIES
8. Pretty Pants and Office Pants: Making Home, Identity and Belonging in a Workplace; Rachel Hurdley
9. Buying for Baby: How Middle-Class Mothers Negotiate Risk with Second-Hand Goods; Emma Waight
10.The Hidden Lives of Domestic Things: Accumulations in Cupboards, Lofts, and Shelves; Sophie Woodward