Teaching Feminism and Body Image: What is Dove Really Selling?
Yesterday, during a lesson on persuasive rhetorical techniques, I showed my students a number of commercials, asking them whether the technique used was Logos, Ethos, or Pathos. Along with this, I...
View ArticleOn Body Image: Men and Advertising
I strongly believe that it is just as important to discuss how men appear in advertising as it is to discuss how women appear in advertising. Men suffer from body image issues just as women do, often...
View ArticleKeep It Real: Teaching Media Literacy
I’ve written a lot about photoshop and real beauty. I covered it for Gender Across Borders last year, and the article was later picked up by the Ms. Magazine Blog. I wrote about it for Care2 recently,...
View ArticleI Don’t Have a Problem With Dove’s #choosebeautiful Campaign
In case you missed it, Dove released a new video recently, showing women around the world who were presented with two doors, one labeled “Beautiful” and one labeled “Average.” What they found was...
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