The Naked Truth: Advertising's Image of Women©

A report by the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women named advertising the worst offender in perpetuating the image of women as sex symbols and an inferior class of human being.

In The Naked Truth, Jean Kilbourne examines images in advertising with the incisive wit and irony that have delighted and enlightened her audiences for years. She explores the relationship of media images to actual problems in the society, such as violence, the sexual abuse of children, rape and sexual harassment, pornography and censorship, teenage pregnancy, and eating disorders.

Under the Influence: The Pushing of Alcohol via Advertising©

From corporate boardrooms to college campuses, there is increasing concern about alcohol-related problems. Alcohol abuse causes over 100,000 deaths and costs our society over $120 billion a year. One out of three Americans says that alcohol has been the cause of trouble in his or her family. Meanwhile, the alcohol industry spends well over two billion dollars a year on advertising and promotion, often targeting alcoholics and young people.

In this dynamic slide presentation, Jean Kilbourne shows how advertising falsely links alcohol with precisely those attributes and qualities - happiness, wealth, prestige, sophistication, success, maturity, athletic ability, virility, creativity, sexual satisfaction, and others - that the abuse of alcohol diminishes and destroys. She educates her audience not only about alcohol advertising but also about media censorship on behalf of the alcohol industry and the special issues of alcoholics, young people, women, minorities, and children of alcoholics.

Additional Program Topics:

You've Come the Wrong Way, Baby: Women and Smoking©
Deadly Persuasion: Advertising and Addiction©
Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tabacco©
Marketing Misery: Selling Addictions to Women©
Eating Our Hearts Out: The Obsession with Thinness©
How Free is Our Press? The Truth about Censorship©

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