Archive for 'exploitation'
Navel Gazing
Okay, so there’s this issue that I haven’t exactly addressed yet, and it occured to me while I was reading a comment on Alas!’ post How I Became a Feminist. This comment, by Kate L., says, “does anyone who knows Jessica [Valenti, whose book, Full Frontal Feminism, is being discussed] anywhere that I can find [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2007 under Janet Jackson, Lindsay Lohan, Misogyny, Paris Hilton, R&B, blogging, exploitation, feminism, marketing, objectification, photography, psychology, stripping, subversion, the gaze, the pose, theory, wardrobe malfunction.
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This Is Not Sex: this is just a pose.
Check out this video essay, “A Web Essay on The Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and The Pose” by Thomas Streeter, Nicole Hintlian, Samantha Chipetz, and Susanna Callender. It makes a lot of the points about the representation of women in the contemporary media as differing from representations of men.
Posted: May 16th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Sex Roles, The Media, exploitation, fashion, fashion photography, magazines, men, objectification, the gaze, the pose.
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Symbolic Rape: From Dolce & Gabbana to Grand Theft Auto
Hat tip to mparham for this article from the Austrailian periodical The Age which details Dolce & Gabbana’s cancellation of an advertising campaign which ostensibly promoted violence against women. The image depicts a man holding down a woman’s wrists as other symmetrically-featured, oiled men look on with what appears to be mild contemplation. Is this really [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2007 under American Psychological Association, Dolce & Gabbana, Female Sexuality, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, LA Times, Sex Roles, U.S. Senate, Wikipedia, erotica, exploitation, hot coffee, mature, objectification, prostitution, rape, sexual assault, symbolism, the gaze, video game ratings, violence against women.
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Expect – A Classic Among Friends since 1939: Billboards, Cont’d
This blog details the continuing saga of the Route 9 Billboard, which currently looks like this: The acquiescence of the Anheuser-Busch company to the demands of the bandits of the Pioneer Valley – who, in an anonymous statement to a UMass professor, identified themselves as the C.O.B.R.A. (Cover Over Budweiser’s Ridiculous Ad) Strike Team [...]
Posted: May 8th, 2007 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, Cobra Strike Team, Rolling Rock, exploitation, objectification, symbolism.
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Hide your knees, it’s the Fashion Po.
This article in the New York Times from May 3rd documents the enforcement of Islamic ideals of modesty in Tehran, Iran. The article reports that “Women have been required by law since the 1979 Islamic revolution to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing. The ideal dress is considered to be the chador, a [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Iran, Islam, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejah, Misogyny, New York Times, Sex Roles, Tehran, chador, exploitation, fashion, fashion police, objectification.
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thin women:strong men as object:subject?
In this article, “Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men” published in the November 2003 issue of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Sarah K. Murnen and her colleagues discuss the effects of rising discrepancies between images of women presented by the media and the size body of the average American woman. Body dissatisfaction is [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2007 under Barbie, Brody Jenner, CosmoGirl, Female Sexuality, Full-Figuring, Guerilla Girls, Ken, Kenneth B Clark, Kiri Davis, Misogyny, Murnen, Nicole Richie, Sarah K, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, doll, doll experiments, exploitation, human dignity, objectification, racism, stigmatization, theory.
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Kanye West’s Gold Digger: Cashing in On Social Capital
Saturday night’s Mos Def concert was punctuated by frequent samples to highlight the talents of Mos’ DJs. One of the samples they chose was the bouncy blues of Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman” (click for an audio-only experience; this was pre-MTV). A girl behind me bopping her head to the beat, was trying to [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2007 under Gold Digger, I Got a Woman, Kanye West, MTV, Misogyny, Mos Def, Psalm One, Ray Charles, Wikipedia, exploitation, hip hop, music video.
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