Compensatory consumption: why women go shopping when they’re fed up and other stories

Marketing Intelligence & Planning

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 325-334

  Woodruffe, Helen R ^a  

^a Lancaster University   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural sciences; Consumer behaviour; Feminism; Gender; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986170678     PISSN: 02634503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02634509710193172     Document Type: Review

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