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Serious Shopping » (1st Edition)

Authors: Adrienne Baker
ISBN-13: 9781853434839, ISBN-10: 1853434833
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Free Association Books Limited
Date Published: March 2000
Edition: 1st Edition

	Acknowledgements
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	'Even As I Bought It I Knew It Couldn't Work'	8
2	Consuming 'Goods'	35
3	From Harrods to Holloway: When Compulsive Shopping Is Not An Option	52
4	Gifts of Life: An Existential Approach to Shopping Addiction	73
5	The Incandescent Shopper: An Existential-Phenomenological Perspective	95
6	Women, Body Image and Shopping for Clothes	114
7	The Ecology of Shopping - A Transformational Experience	133
8	Addictive Shopping as a Form of Family Communication	154
9	Social Power, Self-Identity and Addictive Consumption	183
10	Shopping for an Addiction	199
11	Shame on Credit	221
	Afterword	242
	Index	243