Class Consumption: Understanding Middle-Class Young Men and Their Fashion Choices

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 32-52

  Galilee, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bodies; consumption; fashion; middle class; young men

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937387007     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X02005001002     Document Type: Article

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