Authenticity Guaranteed: Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Anti-Consumerism in American Culture

by Sally Robinson

Americans love to hate consumerism. Scholars, intellectuals, musicians, and writers of all kinds take pleasure in complaining that consumer culture endangers the "real" things in life, including self-determination and individualism. In Authenticity Guaranteed, Sally Robinson brings to light the unacknowledged gender and class assumptions of anti-consumerist critique in the second half of the twentieth century. American anti-consumerism, despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625343531
• ISBN13: 9781625343536
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"