08.28.07
Courtney Martin: Perfect Girls
Courtney Martin reads from her book,
“Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body.”
Courtney Martin reads from her book,
“Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body.”
Andi Zeisler, editor of Bitch magazine, reading an excerpt from her article,
“Plastic Passion: Tori Spelling’s Breasts and Other Results of Cosmetic Darwinism.”
Watch the full video here (57 minutes)
This video includes Sarah McCormick reading from her article “Hoovers & Shakers” about housework as exercise, gender roles, and depression; and Julia Serano reading an excerpt from her article “Skirt Chasers” which is about media representations of transwomen.
Deborah Siegel, PhD, reading an excerpt from her book,
“Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild.”
View the entire video (52minutes) here
Video made for Amnesty International, in which Patrick Stewart relates some of his own experiences as the child in an abusive relationship, where his father would beat his mother, and calls on the UK government to take violence against women as seriously as it takes smoking, drink driving, and violence against children.
This is a longish video, 34 minutes, but well worth watching. Jean Kilbourne analyses the representation of women in adverts and asks us all to take advertising seriously.
Read reviews on imdb here, and visit her site www.jeankilbourne.com for more information.