Can't Buy My Love:
How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

by Jean Kilbourne + Touchstone + November 2000 + 368 Pages + ISBN: 0-684-86600-5 + $14.00 paperback

Can't Buy My Love is the paperback edition of Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising, published in hardback in 1999.

Foreword by Mary Pipher

Introduction: "A Girl of Many Parts"
The Making of an Activist

1 "Buy this 24-year-old and get all his friends absolutely free"
We Are the Product

2 "In Your Face ... All over the Place!"
Advertising Is Our Environment

3 "Bath Tissue is Like Marriage"
The Corruption of Relationships

4 "Can an Engine Pump the Valves in Your Heart?"
Crazy for Cars

5 "Please, Please, You're Driving Me Wild"
Falling in Love with Food

6 "The More You Subtract, the More You Add"
Cutting Girls Down to Size

8 "What You're Looking For"
Rage and Rebellion in Cigarette Advertising

9 "The Dream Begins as Soon as You Open the Door"
Advertising an Addictive Mind-Set

10 "In Life There Are Many Loves, But Only One Grande Passion"
Addiction as a Relationship

11 "You Talkin' to Me?"
Advertising and Disconnection

12 "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt"
Advertising and Violence

13 "Relax. And Enjoy the Revolution"
Redefining Rebellion

Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index