consumer culture

Sick of holiday commercials? Sarah Haskins to the rescue!

Love / Shove post by Annalee Schafranek on December 1, 2008 - 1:23pm; tagged commercials, consumer culture, consumerism, feminism, Sarah Haskins, Target Women.
Since I’m still in the charming stage of not having my life together, whenever I go home I can always count on my mom making sure I eat well. This is especially true during the holidays (leftovers and pumpkin cheesecake for days!). While my little brother helped out with making an excellent mostly-veggie Thanksgiving dinner, all the holiday cooking commercials I watched in between a Project Runway marathon reminded me of a great episode of Current TV’s Target Women called "Feeding Your F---ing Family."
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Consumerism turns deadly

Bitch on Wheels post by Debbie Rasmussen on November 28, 2008 - 3:34pm; tagged consumer culture, consumerism, Wal-Mart, WTF?.

A Long Island Wal-Mart worker was trampled to death this morning as over 2,000 shoppers pushed and shoved their way through the doors at 4:55 a.m., five minutes before the doors were set to open. 

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Queens of the Iron Age

Article by Justine Sharrock, Illustrated by Carrie Christian, appeared in issue Fame & Obscurity; published in 2002; filed under Social commentary; tagged consumer culture, crafting, domesticity, gender roles, housewives, misogyny, post feminism, second wave, third wave.
On the New Feminist Hygiene Products
Fame & Obscurity

When i was 8, my father organized a present for my sisters and me to give my mom for Mother’s Day: a pressure cooker, wrapped up with other fun kitchen items like tea towels, pop-up sponges, spatulas, and an apron. It seemed like a good idea—Mom was the one who was always in the kitchen, and this was the day to celebrate her. But the minute she opened her present, even I knew we had the wrong idea.

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