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Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability (2014)
Journal Article
Martens, L. (2014). Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability. Young Consumers: Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers, 15(3), 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/yc-10-2013-00409

Purpose
This paper aims to examine, through a focus on the practice of child caring, how three qualities of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability, are nurtured by being brought together as rationales for product re-design, innov... Read More about Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability.

Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens) (2013)
Book
Martens, L. (2013). S. O'Donohoe, M. Hogg, P. Maclaran, L. Martens, & L. Stevens (Eds.). Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469729

It takes more than a baby to make a mother, and mothers make more than babies. Bringing together a range of international studies, Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption examines how marketing and consumer culture constructs particular images of what m... Read More about Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens).