Selves in Transition: Symbolic Consumption in Personal Rites of Passage and Identity Reconstruction
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Consumer Research
- Vol. 17 (4) , 412-425
- https://doi.org/10.1086/208567
Abstract
The consumption of aesthetic plastic surgery is examined within the broader context of daily life in an investigation of the motives and the self-conThis publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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