Peta pimps its ethics

PETA deserves contempt for exploiting women, writes MELINDA TANKARD REIST PETA needs to be renamed. People for the Ethical Treatment...

Looking behind the positive body image platitudes: Triumph’s latest marketing stunt

Shapewear line to help you be more like the “lucky” slim girls I was recently asked to comment on a...

Henson’s sexualised depictions of young girls: calling it art doesn’t make it OK

Photos found in paedophile collections I haven’t seen the latest photographs by artist Bill Henson to go on show at...

Petition launched to stop US child beauty pageants in Australia

Calling on Federal Minister Peter Garrett and Victoria counterpart Wendy Lovell to intervene Collective Shout has initiated a petition in...

Child beauty pageants: equating a girl’s worth with appearance dangerous and destructive

Nina Funnell writes that girls are learning to read their value as a person in terms of how their physical...

Turning girls into tarted up dolls: we don’t need toxic US child beauty pageants here

Teaching girls their value is in their physical beauty Many readers will have seen the documentary Toddlers and Tiaras revealing...

Anti-violence men’s group takes on Rivers

How encouraging it is for those of us involved in trying to make things better for women and girls when...

Rivers nailed for seeing dead women as new advertising opportunity

The Age has covered our protest against Rivers for appropriating the image of a dead woman in fishnet stockings and...

A dead woman becomes a good deal: Rivers

Rivers using glamourised violence against women to flog clothes and shoes This image is from the latest Rivers catalogue advertising...

Inside the business of prostitution in Canberra: we need exit programs not more brothels

Canberra needs to follow the Swedish model and provide exit programs for prostituted women. Caroline Norma, a valued contributor to...

Colonising the world with body hatred

Commercial exploitation of the female body exposed at Endangered Species Conference Just came across this piece in The New Internationalist...

Witchery: recruiting children as adult-like models

Fashion company ignores experts – again Witchery just doesn’t get it. Or chooses not to. Last year a number of...