It’s business doing pleasure with you: Sh! A women’s sex shop case

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 352-360

  Malina, Danusia ^a   Schmidt, Ruth A ^b  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumer behaviour; Feminism; Gender; Postmodernism; Retailing; Services marketing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132067     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634509710367926     Document Type: Article

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