Consumption intensified : the politics of middle-class daily life in Brazil /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	O'Dougherty, Maureen, 1956-
Imprint:	Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2002.
Description:	xv, 262 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Middle class -- Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 20th century. Middle class -- Brazil -- Political activity. Consumption (Economics) -- Brazil. Consumption (Economics) Economic history. Middle class -- Economic conditions. Middle class -- Political activity. Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985- Brazil.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4607900

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ISBN:	0822328798 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822328941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-250) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Dream Class is Over: Home Ownership, Consumption, and (Re)definitions of Middle-Class Identity
2. Shopping Nightmares, Banking Games, Government Packages: Local Shopping During Inflation
3. The Discrete Sales of the Middle Class: Gender and Generation in a Globalizing Economy
4. The International in Daily Life: Of Debutantes and Disney
5. International Bargain Shopping and the Making of Modernity
6. Delivering the Crisis: The Media and the Middle Class through the Collor Years
7. The Middle Class versus the Nation: Discourses of Region/Race and Morality
8. Deliverance: An End to Inflation and the Promise of Neoliberalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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