WMST 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kate Moss, Liposuction, Botulinum Toxin

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WMST 1000
• Professor: Amy Butchart

Document Summary

Killing us softly 4: advertising"s image of women video. Jean kilbourne"s talking about it for 40 years, and its getting worst, but more people recognizing it you see 3,000 days every single day. Women as objectified by actually turning into products (ex a beer), body dismemberment. The use women bodies or parts of women"s body to sell things. 91% of cosmetic surgeries done on women, almost 12 million per yer. 754% increase in things like liposuction and botox. Size zero in stores, promotes wanting to disappear and get smaller and smaller. The only body type we see in advertising is a body type less than 5% of the american population has (cid:838)nothing tastes as good as skinny feels(cid:839) kate moss. Women bombarded with ways to loss weight, in media through diets and pills. The way we talk about food is the way we used to talk about sex.