In 2012, she published a history of children's clothing, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, which chronicles the decline of gender-neutral apparel for babies and toddlers and the rise of highly gender-specific clothes in the mid 80s, explaining how consumerism helped drive the rapid move toward gendering clothing for young children.
Modern capitalism has liberated Western women "from being defined by their biology," Bunting says, but at the same time "mothers have ended up relegated to the status of constant abject failure in a culture driven by consumerism and workaholism".
"If it works, it helps drive consumerism into health care".
Over the past generation, the potential for music to convey critical ideas about culture or young people's power as potential agents of change has been overrun by music's potential as an engine to drive consumerism.
My sister was a devotee of 'Real Housewives' early on — 'Oh, my God, I can't believe what a good mother I am.' " "The Rachel Zoe Project," "Flipping Out," "Real Housewives" — they're all entertaining personality portraits but also morality plays about consumerism that still drive people to go and buy things.
And with cars and highways have come all the standard spaces of suburban consumerism - drive-through restaurants and big-box shopping malls, budget chain motels, and even that vanished icon of middle America, the drive-in cinema.
As long as societies are driven by ever-increasing consumerism there can be no hope for ending wars and establishing peace among nations.
It seems that she has never been driven by an interest in consumerism or fleeting trends.
Then came consumerism and the advent of the needy child, driven by wants and desires he did not know he had until they were triggered by popular media.
Underpinning the practice of ethical consumerism is thus the presumption that consumption, a process driven by the global distribution of wealth, can serve as an effective surrogate for other, more traditional forms of democratic representation, such as voting.
