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A Taste for Gardening - Classed and Gendered Practices (Hardcover, New Ed) Loot Price: R4,206
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A Taste for Gardening - Classed and Gendered Practices (Hardcover, New Ed): Lisa Taylor

A Taste for Gardening - Classed and Gendered Practices (Hardcover, New Ed)

Lisa Taylor

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Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples' identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics. This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices.

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Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2008
First published: 2008
Authors: Lisa Taylor
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 228
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7221-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
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LSN: 0-7546-7221-2
Barcode: 9780754672210

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