"This volume provides an in-depth examination of the role of sexuality in consumers' life course and in the marketing of products and services. Leading scholars in the field define the most up-to-date picture of theories of sexuality in marketing and consumer research, mapping the topic through...

"What fuels capitalism and what stops it from collapsing? Does marketing communications support and sustain the economic and political status quo? This book is not about describing the ways in which businesses can optimize the messages they put across or about adding to the marketing...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Where are we Now? -- 2 Decoding the Market Logic -- 3 Sport: Winners, Losers, and the Logic of Competition -- 4 Corporate Social Responsibility: Corporate Utopias,...

pt. 1. Mapping the domain of consumer vulnerability -- pt. 2. Consumer vulnerability and key life stages -- pt. 3. Consumer vulnerability, health and wellbeing -- pt. 4. Consumer vulnerability, poverty and exclusion.