Consuming pleasure on the wedding day: The lived experience of being a bride

Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 109-122

  Boden, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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