Resources
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Films: Sexualization of Girls & Women / Body Image / Negative Portrayals of Girls & Women in the Media
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Films: Sexualization of Girls & Women / Body Image / Negative Portrayals of Girls & Women in the Media
2010: Killing Us Softly 4: Documentary: Media Ads Deliberately Make Us Hate Ourselves ad
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An outstanding documentary film, by Dr. Jean Kilbourne, a feminist author, speaker, and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for her work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. This powerful documentary explores how sexist, women-hating media advertising and impossible beauty standards promoted in the media teaches girls and women to hate their bodies and to hate themselves.
The beauty industry and the media deliberately set unattainable beauty standards in order to make women and girls feel insecure and bad about how the look, so they can get us to buy their products. Discusses how every single photo in fashion magazines and online photos are fake (the photos aren't real, they're fake photos) through the use of computers, Photo-shopping and airbrushing. |
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The 2011 award-winning feminist documentary, Miss Representation (aired on OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network), explores how the media’s misrepresentations of women have led to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.
The film challenges the media’s often negative portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman or girl to feel powerful herself. The documentary film also discusses the sexualization of girls and women in our culture. |
2012: Sexy Baby Documentary: Sexiness in the Cyber Age
Pornification and Hyper-sexualization of Girls and Our Culture
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A new 2012 documentary, Sexy Baby looks at ‘sexiness in the cyber-age’ by Leanne Westrick. Sexy Baby, asks: what does it mean to grow up in a hyper-sexual culture? Pornography is now easily available to kids and teenagers, and is now virtually mainstream in our culture -- what does that mean for young girls and boys growing up in this new, pornified culture? Studies have found that “kids who consume this kind of sex in the media inherit more traditional views of gender — boys as dominant, girls as submissive, in the bedroom and beyond.
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