Jean Kilbourne: THE NAKED TRUTH: ADVERTISING’S IMAGE OF WOMEN
March 14, 2013
Lectures on: THE NAKED TRUTH: ADVERTISING’S IMAGE OF WOMEN
Her intelligent probing and the deductions she has made are of use to all her listeners and readers. —Maya Angelou, author (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and others)
Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and for her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. In the late 1960s she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including violence against women, eating disorders, and addiction, and launched a movement to promote media literacy as a way to prevent these problems. A radical and original idea at the time, this approach is now mainstream and an integral part of most prevention programs. According to Susan Faludi, “Jean Kilbourne’s work is pioneering and crucial to the dialogue of one of the most underexplored, yet most powerful, realms of American culture -advertising. We owe her a great debt.” Mary Pipher has called Kilbourne “our best, most compassionate teacher.”
Her films, lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. Kilbourne was named by The New York Times Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses. She is the creator of the renowned Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women film series and the author of the award-winning book Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids (with Diane E. Levin).
Lecture at 7:30pm
$25 advance/Door
Sponsored by The Auburn Education Foundation, The Skaneateles AAUW and Plank Road Magazine
