Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years after releasing “Killing Us Softly,” a film about advertising’s demeaning and dehumanizing impact on girls and women, ...

On Thursday evening, September 18th, Smith College hosted an event to celebrate Jean Kilbourne and the 40th anniversary of her film series “Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Image of Women.” At the ...

If you, like me, push the “mute” button during TV commercials or avoid fashion mags because the messages are so sexist, stupid, and offensive, you have Jean Kilbourne to thank. For the past ...

On average, a person sees 3,000 advertisements a day. On Wednesday evening, Jean Kilbourne, a prominent voice on advertising and culture, asked students to think critically about the ads they see.

NORTHAMPTON — Forty years ago, feminist activist and media scholar Jean Kilbourne’s film “Killing Us Softly: Advertising’s Images of Women” shed light on the ways in which women are negatively ...

Jean Kilbourne, renowned scholar, author and filmmaker, discussed the objectification of women in advertising — a matter she began exploring in the late 1960s — to a crowd of over 350 Ann Arbor ...

Only five percent of American women have "the perfect body" - the body portrayed in most television and print advertisements, according to writer and lecturer Jean Kilbourne, who was brought to campus ...

Approximately a third of all three-year-olds can link Joe Camel with cigarettes. In fact, this black-leather clad dromedary has become as popular as Mickey Mouse. Jean Kilbourne, media critic, ...

Jean Kilbourne, internationally known for her work on the image of women in advertising, will speak at noon March 12 at Cuyahoga Community College, 11000 West Pleasant Valley Road, in Parma. Kilbourne ...