Women at Work: Tupperware, Passion Parties, and Beyond

Susan L. Williams; Michelle Bemiller

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers 2011

Women at Work

Tupperware, Passion Parties, and Beyond

Susan L. Williams and Michelle Bemiller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781588269553

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Do Tupperware parties and Mary Kay sales empower individual women, or do they exploit personal relationships for corporate gain? Looking through the overlapping lenses of gender, work, and culture, Susan Williams and Michelle Bemiller critically explore the world of party plan sales. The authors investigate this $30 billion a year enterprise through a wide range of case studies that unpack its personal and professional results for women. Closely examining the promises of multilevel marketing programs, their book challenges the way we see women's participation in the party plan economy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Case Studies Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1 The Gendering of Parties and Markets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Staging the Study of Parties and Markets Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 How the Party Plan Economy Mutes Women’s Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4 How Marketplaces of Interaction Modify the Party Plan Economy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
5 When Consumption, Markets, and Movements Meet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
6 When the Party Reaches Beyond Products Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
7 Taking Back, Talking Back Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
The Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
About the Book Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273

Language: English
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 271

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Published: June 7, 2022
ISBN: 9781588269553