"An outstanding book. . . . The first extensive treatment in English of the problems of Brazilian modernity and consumerism."--Richard Wilk, Indiana University
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Dream Class is Over: Home Ownership, Consumption, and (Re)definitions of Middle-Class Identity
2. Shopping Nightmares, Banking Games, Government Packages: Local Shopping During Inflation
3. The Discrete Sales of the Middle Class: Gender and Generation in a Globalizing Economy
4. The International in Daily Life: Of Debutantes and Disney
5. International Bargain Shopping and the Making of Modernity
6. Delivering the Crisis: The Media and the Middle Class through the Collor Years
7. The Middle Class versus the Nation: Discourses of Region/Race and Morality
8. Deliverance: An End to Inflation and the Promise of Neoliberalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index
