Making sameness: Mothering, commerce and the culture of children's birthday parties

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 79-96

  Clarke, Alison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS VIENNA   (Austria)

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