Our Issue with Swimsuits (or lack thereof) in Sports Illustrated
44This week, the 2012 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue hit the mailboxes of 70 million SI subscribers, every newsstand and media outlet, and at least 250 million people will view the thousands of digitally manipulated, nude or near-nude images online. The highly publicized cover features a 19-year-old …
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Victoria’s Dirty Little Secret
In the US and now across the world, a multi-billion-dollar corporation has been fighting a tough battle for “female empowerment” since 1963, and based on their crazy success, women appear to be quite literally buying what this company is selling. Holding tight to a mission statement that …
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Porn & Pop Culture: Taking Our Power Back
Beauty Redefined stands firmly behind a few truths; one of which is “there is more to BE than eye candy.” We believe we live in a media-saturated world that so often contradicts that truth with dangerous lies. In the last decade, inescapable media messages have done a …
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Porn & Pop Culture: A Deadly Combination
By Lexie Kite In the last year, I have spent hours on the phone with a good friend as she discovered her boyfriend’s heavy use of pornography and his eventual cheating on her. I have cried with a colleague who carries the burden of finding out …
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Victoria’s Secret: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Sexual Objectification!
Hello Beautiful Friends! This piece was published almost a year ago, and since that point, I have written a paper on Victoria’s Secret that won a “top paper” award in the Women’s Studies division at the 2011 National Communication Association Conference in New Orleans! In …
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