Shona Bettany – författare

This book critically examines the marketisation of the menopause transition, a phenomenon that in recent years has given rise to an array of products, services, investment opportunities, and the supposed empowerment of women navigating midlife transitions.

As venture capitalists and well-being brands converge on this new frontier in marketing opportunity, our book critically assesses the issues that accompany the latest menopause market trends and evolving consumer predilections These include biomedical possibilities, rebranding feminism, the rise of menopause influencers, celebrity and social media-enabled menopause advocacy, novel advertising rhetoric, and corporeal representations that challenge the public’s expectations of ageing women’s bodies and attitudes. The chapters in this book adopt interdisciplinary perspectives to reveal how sociocultural narratives influence menopause marketing strategies and suggest how they may be utilised to rethink advertising rhetoric to faithfully represent lived experiences of the menopause. This book addresses an international readership of scholars and practitioners of marketing, consumer behaviour, advertising rhetoric, life course representation, gender, and health studies.

This book will be beneficial for scholars, researchers, and practitioners across a range of fields, including marketing, consumer behaviour, advertising, gender studies, health studies, and sociology.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.

This book critically examines the marketisation of the menopause transition, a phenomenon that in recent years has given rise to an array of products, services, investment opportunities, and the supposed empowerment of women navigating midlife transitions.

As venture capitalists and well-being brands converge on this new frontier in marketing opportunity, our book critically assesses the issues that accompany the latest menopause market trends and evolving consumer predilections These include biomedical possibilities, rebranding feminism, the rise of menopause influencers, celebrity and social media-enabled menopause advocacy, novel advertising rhetoric, and corporeal representations that challenge the public’s expectations of ageing women’s bodies and attitudes. The chapters in this book adopt interdisciplinary perspectives to reveal how sociocultural narratives influence menopause marketing strategies and suggest how they may be utilised to rethink advertising rhetoric to faithfully represent lived experiences of the menopause. This book addresses an international readership of scholars and practitioners of marketing, consumer behaviour, advertising rhetoric, life course representation, gender, and health studies.

This book will be beneficial for scholars, researchers, and practitioners across a range of fields, including marketing, consumer behaviour, advertising, gender studies, health studies, and sociology.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Journal of Marketing Management.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of how consumers develop resilience in response to disruptive events. Bringing together a diverse collection of studies spanning low-income consumers, families displaced by conflict, and individuals interacting with disrupted material objects, it demonstrates the varied ways in which people adapt to challenging circumstances, rebuild identities, reconstruct roles and routines. This book highlights the important influence of religiosity on consumer adaptation and behaviour during periods of major socio-economic disruption.

This book advances understanding of resilience as relational, cautioning against the over-individualisation of responsibility and emphasising the essential role of stakeholders, such as governments in shaping consumers’ adaptive capacities. Extending these insights, the book explores disruptions in higher education, where marketisation and digitalisation have transformed expectations for both students and staff. The book also examines the rise of consumer prepping, raising concerns about inequalities embedded within the resilience discourse and illustrating how expectations to “be resilient” can reinforce existing socioeconomic and gender disparities.

The chapters, originally published as part of a special issue in Journal of Marketing Management, offer a rich, multidimensional perspective on consumer resilience and are valuable resources for researchers and practitioners across marketing, consumer research, sociology, and related fields.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of how consumers develop resilience in response to disruptive events. Bringing together a diverse collection of studies spanning low-income consumers, families displaced by conflict, and individuals interacting with disrupted material objects, it demonstrates the varied ways in which people adapt to challenging circumstances, rebuild identities, reconstruct roles and routines. This book highlights the important influence of religiosity on consumer adaptation and behaviour during periods of major socio-economic disruption.

This book advances understanding of resilience as relational, cautioning against the over-individualisation of responsibility and emphasising the essential role of stakeholders, such as governments in shaping consumers’ adaptive capacities. Extending these insights, the book explores disruptions in higher education, where marketisation and digitalisation have transformed expectations for both students and staff. The book also examines the rise of consumer prepping, raising concerns about inequalities embedded within the resilience discourse and illustrating how expectations to “be resilient” can reinforce existing socioeconomic and gender disparities.

The chapters, originally published as part of a special issue in Journal of Marketing Management, offer a rich, multidimensional perspective on consumer resilience and are valuable resources for researchers and practitioners across marketing, consumer research, sociology, and related fields.