The objectification and portrayal of women in the media, advertising, magazines, music videos and television presents a stereotype of women’s roles in society, which reinforces women’s subordinate status.
“Pretend(ing) to offer liberation in the guise of sexual promiscuity” - Catharine Lumby in Australian Feminism: a companion, 1998.
Female Chauvinist pigs : Women and the rise of raunch culture by Ariel Levy also addresses some of these issues.
Our library has both of these books, and more on women and the media.
- Cat
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