Advertising, body image, Eating Disorders, FHM, Girlfriend, Grazia, jennifer hawkins, Loveable, National Body Image Awareness Week, objectification, sexulisation, thin ideal
8 Sep 2010
More double standards and mixed messages for Body Image Awareness Week According to its website, Australian underwear brand Lovable says...
#feelthemupFriday, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, breast cancer campaigns, breast cancer funding, breast feeding, feminism, objectification, Sexualisation
6 Sep 2010
The sexualisation of breast cancer campaigns ‘Help The Hooters’, ‘Save The Jugs’, ‘Don’t Let Cancer Steal Second Base’, ‘Cop a...
gender, marketing, men, objectification, SBS, sex, sport, stereotypes, violence
2 Sep 2010
Men are stereotyped too Came across this father’s day ad in The Weekend Australia magazine. Right here we have a...
beauty industry, breast implants, breast lift, cosmetic surgery, liposuction, tummy tuck
31 Aug 2010
Or leave you permanently disfigured “It’s an industry that has developed in health care which has nothing to do with...
advertising standards board, afl, Gold Coast, hooters, marketing, meter maids, Microsoft, objectification, Sexualisation, workplace harassment
27 Aug 2010
Company forced to apologise for meter maid stunt Nice to be able to end the week on a good note....
Advertising, objectification, rape, sexulisation, violence
26 Aug 2010
The latest in eroticised violence in advertising There’s no shortage of material documenting the mind numbing levels of violence against...
Advertising, airbrushing, body image, digital enhancement, Eating Disorders, fashion, Girlfriend, Girls, marketing, modelling, National body image advisory board, voluntary body imag code of conduct, womens magazines
24 Aug 2010
GF’s ‘reality check’ needs a reality check Revolution: a: a sudden, radical, or complete change b: a fundamental change in...
beauty pageant, body image, body image dissatisfaction, Miss Universe, objectification, Sexualisation, thin ideal
17 Aug 2010
The Miss Universe competition shows us just how far we haven’t come Miss Universe has come round again. The swimsuit...
abortion, china, forced abortion, one child policy
12 Aug 2010
Suffering unlimited Recently, Xinran, the Chinese-English journalist and author of Messages from an Unknown Chinese Mother: the lives of women...
congo, rape, violence
10 Aug 2010
Visions of hell from Africa Two recent and deeply disturbing ABC Four Corners documentaries have me thinking about how much...
child abuse, sexual assault
6 Aug 2010
Crime Commission report reveals failure to act Three alarming reports in News Ltd papers about child on child sexual abuse....
sexual harassment, women, workplace harassment
4 Aug 2010
But Alannah Hill acts like it is When a woman makes a joke about sexual harassment and claims she wishes...