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A Comprehensive Bibliography of works on gender and advertising, 1980-2000 (requires you to be at RU campus computer, or else to configure your home computer to access RU libraries databases--go here for instructions on doing so.) Landscapes of Capital A project based on 887 television commercials. All are digitized and included in a database. Project Look Sharp An initiative to help teachers at all grade levels integrate media literacy into the curriculum. The Gender Ads Project
Features images of over 1,600 ads, usefully grouped
by theme. Also has useful links page.
The Commercial Closet A site devoted to improving LGBT perceptions through better advertising Adbusters Anti-ads site and magazine Advertising Educational Foundation See especially overview of an October 2003 conference on women and advertising and also overview of a 2004 conference on "The New Femininity: exposing the myths and midriffs of today's young women" Adland Fascinating examples of what digitally retouching does to women's images example 1 example 2 Advertising Women of New York About-Face A media literacy organization dedicated to combating negative and distorted images of women in advertising and media. Girls, Women and Media Project Duke University Collections of Advertising Materials Includes links to some sites with thousands of ads A Web essay on the male gaze, fashion advertising, and the pose Sex Roles: A Journal of Research A good place to find articles on advertising and gender AdCritic.com With an archive of 1,879 television commercials and 2.45 gigabytes of mostly Quicktime-encoded videos, AdCritic.com is the Net's largest repository of TV commercials. National Organization for Women's Media Activism Site List of links to sites where one can see ads of many types, from various time periods 253 ads depicting women, from Roland Marchand's slide collection (some great ones in here) http://www.commercialalert.org/ The Erotic History of Advertising Excerpt from a book by this name, by Tom Reichert. Additional excerpts here Home, Hearth and Housekeeping |