84 P - Commodities, Consumption and Rights in the Americas

Friday, June 2, 2017: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Plaza room 1 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Mary Yeager, UCLA
Calculating the Costs: A Gender Analysis of Japanese Cars in Cold War America
Katherine Parkin, Monmouth University
Selling Women's Sexual Liberation. Middle class white women sex consumptions in contemporary Argentina
Karina Felitti, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research of Argentina
"'Big Government, Big Minority, and Big Oil': Margaret Bush Wilson's NAACP during the 1970s Energy Crisis"
Priscilla Anne Dowden-White, University of Missouri - St. Louis

Session Abstract

This panel discusses the role of gender and race in consumerism, work, and commodities. Women were not always thought of as power-holding consumers, but two of the works in this panel discuss women’s roles in the consumption of Japanese automobiles and the increased commodification of sexuality and pleasure. Two of the papers also take an intersectional approach to work and commodities by focusing on the trajectory of precarious work and the connection between the NAACP and energy policies in the 1970’s.

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