Buying for baby: how middle-class mothers negotiate risk with second-hand goods
Buying for baby: how middle-class mothers negotiate risk with second-hand goods
Focusing on the mother as consumer as well as carer, this chapter considers mothers’ co-consuming practices related to used/second-hand baby goods purchased at nearly new sales. Citing second-hand consumption as an intimate and risky practice, the material negotiations and risk reduction strategies practiced by middle-class mothers as they engage in consuming second-hand baby items are discussed.
9781137429070
Waight, Emma
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October 2015
Waight, Emma
b9491367-72bf-42d1-8f79-56b2d27d5bc3
Waight, Emma
(2015)
Buying for baby: how middle-class mothers negotiate risk with second-hand goods.
In,
Casey, Emma and Taylor, Yvette
(eds.)
Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies.
(Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life)
Basingstoke, GB.
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Focusing on the mother as consumer as well as carer, this chapter considers mothers’ co-consuming practices related to used/second-hand baby goods purchased at nearly new sales. Citing second-hand consumption as an intimate and risky practice, the material negotiations and risk reduction strategies practiced by middle-class mothers as they engage in consuming second-hand baby items are discussed.
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Published date: October 2015
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Local EPrints ID: 377594
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/377594
ISBN: 9781137429070
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Author:
Emma Waight
Editor:
Emma Casey
Editor:
Yvette Taylor
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