Sexism, Racism & the Image of Women in the Media
The values that have been labeled “feminine” – love, compassion, cooperation, patience – are very badly needed in giving birth to and nurturing a new era of greater peace and justice in human society. It would be unfortunate if they were forsaken by women because they seem dysfunctional to competition in a “masculine” world. Now, more than ever, these are the values that need to be asserted by men and women in creating a new world order. -Patricia Mische
Anything She Can Do I Can Do Better: The Truth About Female Competition. Oakes-Ash, Rachael. Sydney: Random House Australia, 2003.
Backlash. Faludi, Susan. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.
Commercializing Women: Images of Asian Women in the Media. Frith, Katherine T. and Karan, Kavita (eds.). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008.
Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip Hop Head Weighs in on Hip-Hop Culture (A film by Byron Hurt, available from the Media Education Foundation).
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. New York: Random House, 1997.
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. Kilbourne, Jean. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. (Originally published by the Free Press in 1999 as Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising.)
The Colonizer and the Colonized. Memmi, Albert. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.
Commercial Closet. (Focused on representations of gays and lesbians in advertising.)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video (A film by Sut Jhally available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work is Done. Douglas, Susan. J. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010.
Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is. Garner, Abigail. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture. Levy, Ariel. New York, Free Press, 2005.
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters. Valenti, Jessica. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2007.
Gender Advertisements. Goffman, Erving. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture (A film by Thomas Keith, available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Kimmel, Michael. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
In Her Image: Producing Womanhood in America (A multi-media program/curriculum by Julia Barry about the influence of female imagery in American society.)
I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame. Brown, Brené. New York: Gotham Books, 2007.
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (A film based on Jean Kilbourne’s lecture, available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Laboring Under an Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. the Real Thing (A film by Vicki Elson)
Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media. Rodriguez, Clara. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities. Atkins, Dawn. New York: Haworth Press, 1998.
Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age. Sweeney, Kathleen. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2008.
The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. Katz, Jackson. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006.
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Organization for Men Against Sexism
National Organization for Women
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
National Women’s Health Network
Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers (Second Edition). Lind, Rebecca Ann (ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2009. (Includes a chapter by Jean Kilbourne.)
Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images. Galang, M. Evalina (ed.). Coffee House Press, 2003.
SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge). A coalition of local and national partner organizations committed to working together to challenge the sexualization of girls.
Still Sexy After All These Years? The 9 Unspoken Truths About Women’s Desire Beyond 50. Kliger, Leah and Nedelman, Deborah. New York: Perigree/Penguin, 2006.
Tough Guise: Media Images and the Crisis in Masculinity. (A film by Jackson Katz, available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Toward a New Psychology of Women. Miller, Jean Baker. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.
Transforming a Rape Culture. Buchwald, Emilie, Fletcher, Pamela and Roth, Martha (eds.). Minneapolis: Milkwood Editions, 1993.
Voices of Men (A one-man play by Ben Atherton-Zeman.)
Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Douglas, Susan. New York: Random House, Inc., 1994.
WIMN (Women in Media and News). (A media analysis, training and advocacy organization. Offers female sources to reporters, speakers on women in the media, and a listserve on media analysis and reform).
Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook. Signorielli, Nancy (ed.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. (Includes a chapter on Jean Kilbourne.)
