Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption

Acknowledgements.

1. Approaching Japan through the Study of Consumption.

2. Consumption and Urban Cultures in the Japanese City.

3. The Context of Desire.

4. Shopping and the Social Self.

5. Gender, Class and the Internationalization of Consumption.

6. Consuming Bodies: Media and the Construction and Representation of the Body.

7. Sites and Sights: The Consuming Eye and the Arts of the Imagination in Japanese Tourism.

8. Theorizing Consumption in Urban Japan.

References.

Index.