In the present electronic torrent of MTV and teen flicks, Nintendo and Air Jordan advertisements, consumer culture is an unmistakably important―and controversial―dimension of modern childhood. Historians and social commentators have typically assumed that the child consumer became significant during the postwar television age. But the child consumer was already an important phenomenon in the early twentieth century. The family, traditionally the primary institution of child socialization, began to face an array of new competitors who sought to put their own imprint on children's acculturation to consumer capitalism. Advertisers, children's magazine publishers, public schools, child experts, and children's peer groups alternately collaborated with, and competed against, the family in their quest to define children's identities. At stake in these conflicts and collaborations was no less than the direction of American consumer society―would children's consumer training rein in hedonistic excesses or contribute to the spread of hollow, commercial values? Not simply a new player in the economy, the child consumer became a lightning rod for broader concerns about the sanctity of the family and the authority of the market in modern capitalist culture. Lisa Jacobson reveals how changing conceptions of masculinity and femininity shaped the ways Americans understood the virtues and vices of boy and girl consumers―and why boys in particular emerged as the heroes of the new consumer age. She also analyzes how children's own behavior, peer culture, and emotional investment in goods influenced the dynamics of the new consumer culture. Raising Consumers is a provocative examination of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produced and ultimately legitimized a distinctive children's consumer culture in the early twentieth century.

Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives)

Business & Money

Jacobson, Lisa

Economics

Columbia University Press

Encouraging unity with a fun and lighthearted approach, this workbook helps you put into practice the tangible ideas from The Flirtation Experiment. If you're a wife who wants romance, passion, and heart connection, this workbook will inspire you to take action, and notes along the way. This workbook is for every woman in every stage of life who wants more than to read about what worked for someone else. Conduct your own experiment of finding deeper passion, connection, truth and love in your relationship. All the while, you can chronicle your experiments, the results, and have space for your husband to respond as well. Poised to serve as an action guide for a "Renew the Romance" movement, The Flirtation Experiment Workbook has six sessions, and each session is made up of five separate experiments that are in the same order as the book. The workbook space dedicated to each experiment has a recap of the chapter, a spot for brainstorming your own experiment, and some wrap-up questions that will help you reflect on how your experiment went. Sessions include: <ul> <li>Love Rejoices</li> <li>Love Protects</li> <li>Love Trusts</li> <li>Love Hopes</li> <li>Love Perseveres</li> <li>Love Never Fails</li> </ul> &nbsp;

The Flirtation Experiment Workbook: 30 Acts to Adding Magic, Mystery, and Spark to Your Everyday Marriage

Self-Help

Masonheimer, Phylicia

Relationships

HarperChristian Resources

This bundle pack--containing both The Flirtation Experiment book and the companion workbook--is the perfect set to renewing a loving interaction and intimacy in your marriage! From popular Christian voices Lisa Jacobson and Phylicia Masonheimer, The Flirtation Experiment inspires you to strengthen your marriage with a fun, unexpected approach that leads to the depth, richness, and closeness you desire. The companion workbook takes the tangible ideas from the book, puts you in control of the experiment and gives you the tools to renew your romance with your spouse. Do you remember the spark and mystery you shared when you and your husband were still dating That kind of exciting, loving interaction and intimacy doesn't have to end with marriage, but it does for so many couples. So what is the secret to a happy, thriving marriage, where the fire of romance and close friendship doesn't fade The answer may be different for different couples, but this pack will validate every woman in any stage of their marriage journey who wants more than to read about what worked for someone else.&nbsp; After reading&nbsp;The Flirtation Experiment, wives will: <ul> <li>be filled with hope and encouragement for how they can make a powerful, positive change in their marriages,</li> <li>become empowered to pursue their husbands romantically,</li> <li>understand the Bible invites women to be proactive in their marriages,</li> <li>be motivated to consistently love in creative ways, and</li> <li>forge closeness and intimacy in their marriages.</li> </ul> Then The Flirtation Experiment Workbook allows you to conduct your own experiments and makes space for you to take action (and notes!) on your marriage journey's romance, passion, and heart-connection. It even includes a Husband Appendix, which allows husbands to take an active part. This pack contains one book (9780785246886) and one workbook (9780310140979).

The Flirtation Experiment Book with Workbook: 30 Acts to Adding Magic, Mystery, and Spark to Your Everyday Marriage

Kids are filled with curiosity about where they came from and what it was like to be born. Now, through fascinating facts and actual photos, your eight to twelve-year-old can discover the amazing truth about their life before birth. As they discover the miracle of birth, they’ll gain a respect and wonder for life and for the Creator who made each person unique.

Amazing Beginning of You, The

Children's Books

Jacobson, Matt

Lee, Jared

Religions

Zondervan

Eight to twelve-year-olds discover the amazing truth about their life before birth, and gain respect and wonder for life and the Creator who made each person unique.

Amazing Beginning of You

Jacobson, Matt & Lisa

Literature & Fiction

Zonderkidz

Children play a crucial role in today's economy. According to some estimates, children spend or influence the spending of up to $500 billion annually. Journalists, sociologists, and media reformers often present mass marketing toward children as a recent fall from grace, but the roots of children's consumerism ― and the anxieties over it ― date back more than a century. Throughout the twentieth century, a wide variety of groups ― including advertisers, retailers, parents, social reformers, child experts, public schools, and children themselves ― helped to socialize children as consumers and struggled to define the proper boundaries of the market. The essays and documents in this volume illuminate the historical circumstances and cultural conflicts that helped to produce, shape, and legitimize children's consumerism.
Focusing primarily on the period from the Gilded Age through the twentieth century, this book examines how and why children and adolescents acquired new economic roles as consumers, and how these new roles both reflected and produced dynamic changes in family life and the culture of capitalism. This volume also reveals how children and adolescents have used consumer goods to define personal identities and peer relationships ― sometimes in opposition to marketers' expectations and parental intentions.

Children and Consumer Culture in American Society: A Historical Handbook and Guide (Children and Youth: History and Culture)

Praeger

Italian Swiss Colony, 1949-1989: Recollections of a Third-Generation California Winemaker: Oral History Transcript / And Related Material, 1988-199

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Italian Swiss Colony, 1949-1989: Recollections of a Third-generation California Winemaker : Oral History Transcript / and Related Material, 1988-199

History

Teiser, Ruth

Rossi, Edmund A

Europe

Franklin Classics

Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 83)

In popular memory the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol's decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals, alcohol's respectability and mass market success were neither sudden nor assured. It took a world war and a battalion of public relations experts and tastemakers to transform wine, beer, and whiskey into emblems of the American good life. Alcohol producers and their allies--a group that included scientists, trade associations, restaurateurs, home economists, cookbook authors, and New Deal planners--powered a publicity machine that linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the place of pleasure in modern American life. In this deeply researched and engagingly written book, Jacobson shows how the yearnings of ordinary consumers and military personnel shaped alcohol's cultural reinvention and put intoxicating pleasures at the center of broader debates about the rights and obligations of citizens.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition (Volume 83) (California Studies in Food and Culture)

Industries

University of California Press

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