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Jean Kilbourne
Pioneering Activist, Speaker & Writer
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2021
Nov 2021
The Champagne Problems Podcast: How Media Affects Your Health with Jean Kilbourne
Sept 2021
Denier: A Conversation Jean Kilbourne
Aug 2021
International Overdose Awareness Day: 5 Powerful Anti-Drug Quotes To Raise Awareness
May 2021
It’s Time for Beauty Brands to Confront Colorism in Their Advertising
Feb 2021
LinkedIn: Jean Kilbourne on what half a century analysing advertising has taught her
2020
October 2020
Advertising vs. Democracy: An Interview with Jean Kilbourne by Hugh Iglarsh at CounterPunch
September 2020
Interview with Graham Goulden
July 20, 2020
Interview with Graham Goulden
July 2020
Why teach media literacy to teen girls?
July 2020
Impossible Beauty Podcast Episode - "The Power of Advertising" with Jean Kilbourne
July 11, 2020
Elon Musk’s Short Shorts Tweet Has Inconsistent Messaging
July 4, 2020
Revolutionary Roots and the True Meaning of Patriotism
April 23, 2020
Trump and the “Nasty,” “Horrid” Women Reporters
April 13, 2020
Unmasking Donald Trump
2019
Nov 19, 2019
Manage the Moment: Conversations in Performance Psychology (Podcast Episode)
Dec 13, 2019
Staring at a mirror
Oct 1, 2019
Jean Kilbourne and Friends Celebrate 40 Years of “Killing Us Softly”
Sept 20, 2019
Feminist activist Jean Kilbourne encourages others ‘not to be silenced’ in Smith College talk
Sept 23, 2019
Smith College hosts event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Jean Kilbourne’s ‘Killing Us Softly’
Sept 26, 2019
Killing Us (Not) So Softly
April 4, 2019
Advertising & Society Quarterly (Volume 20, Issue 1, 2019): Roundtable on Sex in Advertising, Part I
April 15, 2019
Dogpatch Dispatch: My Encounter with Al Capp
March 19, 2019
Six Ad Women Who Have Come a Long Way
March 15, 2019
Forty Years After ‘Killing Us Softly,’ Creator Jean Kilbourne Still on Crusade
Jan 11, 2019
Advertising & Society Quarterly (Volume 19, Issue 4, 2018): Fighting for a Positive Cultural Environment: An Interview with Jean Kilbourne
Jan 11, 2019
Advertising & Society Quarterly (Volume 19, Issue 4, 2018): Roundtable on Sex in Advertising, Part I
Jan 18, 2019
Richardson: Gillette's ad on masculinity is better late than never
Jan 7, 2019
What Outlander Finally Gets Right About Rape This Season
2018
Dec 7, 2018
Outlander's Sex Scenes Are More Than Hot—They're Genuinely Feminist
September 27, 2018
Good Morning America - In #MeToo era, Brett Kavanaugh's accuser may prompt more to share their stories later in life
August 19, 2018
Zestful Aging with Jean Kilbourne -- “Action is the Antidote to Despair”
April 19, 2018
Advertising Has a Headless Woman Problem
April, 2018
Body & Soul: Jean Kilbourne
March 12, 2018
Sexualization of food in advertising contributes to obesity epidemic
January 27, 2018
CVS vows to stop touching up its beauty images
January 24, 2018
Jean Kilbourne: The Tyranny of the Ideal Beauty Image
January 22, 2018
CVS’s Photoshop ban will spread
2017
November 22, 2017
Ignored or sexualized: How Hollywood is failing women
November 21, 2017
Conscious Self-Confidence and How the Media Influence Us, With Jean Kilbourne
April 20, 2017
Author Jean Kilbourne adresses sexualization of women in advertising
Spring 2017
Hartman Center Celebrates 25 Years
January 19, 2017
The Dangers of a Disney Princess
2016
November 4, 2016
Always the right time to honor inductees of the National Women’s Hall of Fame
September 16, 2016
Making It Conscious: Jean Kilbourne on the murky world of advertising
August 30, 2016
The hottest new trend in advertising: fucking your food
June 5, 2016
Wish Radio: Jean Kilbourne on How Advertising is Killing Women Softly
March 14, 2016
Top of Mind with Julie Rose: Refugee Crisis, Cigarette Warning Labels, Women in Advertising
March 8, 2016
Dying to Be Thin and Beautiful: Feminism and Advertising, an Interview With Jean Kilbourne
February 24, 2016
Body Image Is a Public Health Issue A Call to Action
February 11, 2016
The two things that could keep Barbie’s evolution from being the success it should be
2015
Oct 6, 2015
National Women's Hall of Fame Listing: Jean Kilbourne
November 20, 2015
What happens when daughters start to outshine their mothers?
November 12, 2015
What a creepy Bloomingdale’s ad tells us about America’s understanding of rape
July 22, 2015
Sexist ads in 'The Seventies'
July 10, 2015
Women’s Image Expert Jean Kilbourne on the Problem With Fashion Ads Today
March 21, 2015
Jean Kilbourne challenges America to consider how advertisements really impact you and your loved ones!
March 19, 2015
Social Justice Authors to Speak at UW Symposium
March 18, 2015
Advertising’s toxic effect on eating and body image
March 17, 2015
Making Unconscious Messages Conscious
February 27, 2015
Wellesley College honors West Newton’s Jean Kilbourne
February 22, 2015
Mujeres en publicidad con nuevo paradigma
January 22, 2015
Fem-vertising: El Nuevo Paradigma de la Publicidad
2014
November 4, 2014
Q&A with Jean Kilbourne
October 12, 2014
Sexy Halloween costumes for little girls give parents the creeps
September 19, 2014
Why Women are Only Heard When Seen in TV Commercials
September 10, 2014
Mujeres y publicidad: ¿ha cambiado algo desde 1950?
September 2, 2014
Female Empowerment in Ads: Soft Feminism or Soft Soap?
July/August 2014
Taking on Alcohol, Pharmaceutical, and Tobacco Advertising: An Interview with Dr. Jean Kilbourne
July 22, 2014
Jean Kilbourne on women in advertising and rape culture (audio)
June 8, 2014
After shock rise in rape and assaults Glasgow faces down misogyny
May 28, 2014
Do thinner mannequins make people buy clothes?
April 24, 2014
Sexual images bombard kids at ever-earlier ages
April 5, 2014
Jean Kilbourne TedX Talk at Lafayette College
March 4, 2014
Fat shaming: Insecurity, media drive those who mock the obese
February 25, 2014
Body slams, vicious dogs, tidal waves: How effective are violent ads?
February 18, 2014
Media critic examines advertising and gender
February 2014
Advertising's image of women creates public health problems
January 2014
Dove ‘Real Beauty’ Campaign Turns 10
Winter 2014
Center Acquires Papers of Feminist Advertising Critic Jean Kilbourne
2013
December 2, 2013
Seeking to see: Female artists working to reclaim their sexuality
November 16, 2013
Mad men can't buy her love; author speaks on ad addiction
October 22, 2013
Ad another thing: Sounding the alarm about advertising's ill effects on society
October 21, 2013
The power of persuasion: Jean Kilbourne's mission for media literacy
October 18, 2013
The media is the message: Feminist author, filmmaker Jean Kilbourne challenges us to think differently about advertising
October 7, 2013
Why girls Halloween costumes are so sexualized and what you can do about it
September 11, 2013
Kappa Delta hosts Jean Kilbourne at Colorado State
2012
September 25, 2012
It's all in the look
May 17, 2012
Where did all the real women go?
May 6, 2012
Dr. Jean Kilbourne to Keynote SUNY Fredonia 2012-13 Convocation Series
May 2, 2012
The Selling of Alcohol and Tobacco (Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity)
May 2, 2012
The Selling of Food (Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity)
March 11, 2012
Sex, lies and media: New wave of activists challenge notions of beauty
2011
November 27, 2011
Students Hawk Goods on Campus as Officials Weigh Their Response (subscription required)
August 9, 2011
The Sex Talk You Don't Crave
August 7, 2011
It's Time to Reshape Our Beauty Standards
April 25, 2011
It's Time for the Global Village to Stand Up for Our Children
April 14, 2011
Dr. Jean Kilbourne delivers powerful message on "false" advertising
April 11, 2011
Parents decry marketers who push sexuality on little girls
February 16, 2011
Media's Ill Effects
February 2011
5 Questions for Jean Kilbourne
January 2011
Miss Representation at Sundance Film Festival