Tag: consumer culture

• Bangladesh: Dying for Fashion

  

  ONE YEAR LATER: 4/24/14. Parent company of REEF and VANS, VF Corp, continues to refuse to sign Bangladesh accord. Updated 5/30 : Along with VOLCOM and REEF, I found BILLABONG men’s shorts, Made in Bangladesh Updated 5/26 : Bangladesh factory banned by Wal-Mart is still used by the VF Corp (see note 2 below), the…

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  May 20, 2013

  Deconstructing Surfing, environment, Environmental Justice, Politics, Surfing

  2013, Bangladesh, Big Surfing, billabong, consumer culture, consumerism, Cori Schumacher, Dhaka, Hurley, Kasey Mazzone, patagonia, quiksilver, Rana Plaza, Reef, rip curl, sourcing, surf industry, sustainability, Vans, volcom. VF Corp

• The Necessity of Feminist Eyes, Voices

  

  “Post-feminists ‘…explicitly define themselves [as] against… [while criticizing] feminists of the Second Wave‘ (women’s liberation movement). [In post-feminist thought], individual improvement replaces collective improvement, while the results of the collective action of the second wave movement are taken as a given. (Dworkin and Wachs, p. 139)” While taking for granted certain freedoms that were hard-won…

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  April 30, 2012

  Feminism, Media Literacy, Politics

  APA report sexualization of girls, body anxiety, body panic, consumer culture, Cori Schumacher, dworkin, Feminism, post-feminism, reproductive rights, second wave, third wave, wachs, women’s rights