Description
| Product ID: | 9780367605643 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Taste for Gardening |
| Subtitle: | Classed and Gendered Practices |
| Authors: | Author: Lisa Taylor |
| Page Count: | 228 |
| Subjects: | Landscape architecture and design, Landscape art & architecture, City and town planning: architectural aspects, History, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general, Cultural studies, Sociology, Sociology: sport and leisure, Human geography, The environment, Regional and area planning, Gardening, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Humanities, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, Cultural studies, Sociology, Sociology: sport & leisure, Human geography, The environment, Regional & area planning, Gardening |
| Description: | Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. Timely and original, it develops a new area within cultural Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples'' identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics. This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-06-30 |
