Sexualities and Consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Y Taylor (0000-0002-9260-5597, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeoss100 |
| OpenAlex | W4238976412 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Sexuality and consumption are interlinked in powerful and significant ways, perhaps even more so in contemporary, even “postmodern,” times, shaping various material and subjective possibilities and impossibilities, as sexuality is displayed and regulated via consumption. Consumption refers to a wide variety of spending patterns and behaviors and is typically equated with “choice”; what we choose to buy, where and when, and how we choose to use purchasable commodities, ranging from mundane everyday goods and services to extravagant “one‐off” specials, which seemingly reinforce the uniqueness of our own individual consumer choice. Crane (2000) explores fashion and its various and shifting meanings, symbolically, culturally, and economically, across time and place, drawing on data from England, France, and the United States. Crane claims that class has become a less salient aspect of identity, with less effect upon clothing practices, consumption, and signification, which she describes as a shift from classed practices to those based around “lifestyles.” The concept of “subcultural” affiliation is invoked as a way of capturing the proliferation of clothing styles and choices, which, it is claimed, mark the changes from industrial class‐based societies to “postmodern,” “post‐industrial” societies. The manifestations of class and gender are seemingly replaced by an erasure of fixed hierarchies, a blurring of certainty which these categories once represented, and a diffusion of meaning across and between other axes of “difference,” particularly that of sexuality
Aesthetics · Art · Class (philosophy · Clothing · Consumption (sociology · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Meaning (existential · Political science · Postmodernism · Psychoanalysis · Shadow (psychology · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Psychology
Fashion and Its Social Agendas
Working-Class Lesbian Life
All About the Girl
Fear of a queer planet
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
Bodies that Matter
Feminism and Youth Culture
The Globalization of Sexuality
Managing between the Sheets
‘If Your Face Doesn’t Fit…’
The toilet paper
Why a materialist feminism is (Still) Possible—and necessary
Matter out of place
Queer Frameworks and Queer Tendencies
Classing Queer
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |