Tupperware: Suburbia, sociality and mass consumption

Visions of Suburbia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 132-160

  Clarke, Alison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203351321-12     Document Type: Chapter

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