Retailer's buying power has significantly increased in recent years as a result of a process of market concentration. As vertical relationships in marketing channels have strengthened their influence over the shape of the industry, the producer-distributor relationship has become more central to an understanding of both marketing practice and the conduct and performance of consumer goods industries.

This comprehensive and detailed book covers the theory and practice of national and international retail and marketing channels. It provides a structural overview of the...

This title surveys and sets in context the wide range of research work that has been done on retailing. It concentrates on western industrial societies, particularly Britain and the USA, and considers empirical research, theory and theoretical applications.

Changes in the philosophy of planning and the political influences behind it have led to an increasingly ambivalent approach to retail and commercial matters and a lack of clear goals and objectives. This book takes stock of the new problems to be confronted and provides the rudiments of an alternative approach to dealing with them.

This text is concerned with the spatial aspects of the distributive trades. It provides a comprehensive insight into the relationship between consumer demand and retail supply in the context of both recent business trends and increasing planning controls.

This innovative introductory text not only explains Kristeva's most difficult ideas, but also provides insights into her work. All Kristeva's key concepts are covered, and new interpretations are offered of the 'chora', 'Oedipus' and 'abjection', as well as 'revolt' and the 'feminine genius'.

This volume confronts the impasses in materialist feminist work on rethinking 'woman' as a discursively constructed subject. Rosemary Hennessy considers the work of Kristeva, Foucault, Laclau and Mouffe, and argues for a materialist feminist re-articulation of discourse as ideology.

This title presents feminist perspectives on aspects of adolescence which have been chosen for their special relevance to the lives and experiences of girls and young women today. Chapters cover themes and topics which include romance and sexuality, girls' magazines, careers and the reality of being a black girl in society today.

In this title, new and established scholars demonstrate the application of feminism in a range of academic disciplines including history, philosophy, politics, and sociology.

This volume examines an important but under-researched area - the relationships of wives to their husbands' work. It looks both at the way women's lives are directly affected by the work their husbands do and how they can get drawn into it. These it sees as the two sides of wives' 'incorporation'.

Feminist criticism is a critical orthodoxy with its own established canonical texts. Now is the time, then, to begin to question that orthodoxy. In this book, five women critics seek to do that, in a spirit of enquiry whose central point of focus is the literature for which feminist critics have offered a re-reading.