Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gender and contemporary consumer cultures in post-authoritarian Southern European societies.

The book sees a diverse group of international scholars from across the social sciences draw on 14 original case studies to explore the social and cultural changes that have taken place in Spain, Portugal and Greece since the 1960s. This is the first scholarly attempt to look at the countries' similar political and socioeconomic experiences in the shift from...

Performing a political identity usually involves more than just casting a vote. For Left-wingers in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus countries that emerged as the only non-socialist constituents of South-eastern Europe after WWII political preference meant immersion to distinct ways of life, to cultures: in times of dictatorship or persecution, the desire to find alternative ways to express themselves gave content to these cultures. In times of political normality, it was the echoes of such memories of precarity and loss that took the lead.

This book explores the intersection between the...