Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Cover Girl Culture/My Feminism

Follow up viewing
Excerpts from Cover Girl Culture





My Feminism (at UI Library: Main Course Reserve Video record 30933 DVD)

"This superbly shot and emotionally compelling primer debunks mass media's demonization of feminism. In incisive interviews with leading activists and intellectuals, this powerful film insists that feminism is one of the most successful and significant revolutions of the late 20th century. With amazing clarity, it links equality, gender, race, reproductive rights, sexualities, women's health, abortion, parenting, breast cancer, poverty, and power as interlocking planks of the feminist global agenda. Empowering, edifying, mobilizing, watching MY FEMINISM lets us know that we are not alone." — Patricia Zimmermann, Ithaca College

LC Meets ANTM



How far does ANTM venture from an idea norm?

Despite aesthetic differences, how do these model types reinforce rigid and hegemonic standards of femininity, sexuality, and subsequent "belonging?"