Advertising and Corporate Power
Write to the advertisers c/o the magazines or the manufacturers. Remember to support positive images and enlightened members of the advertising industry – they need your help and encouragement. Call local television stations or write to the networks.
The Ad and the Ego (A film by Harold Boihem.)
Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture. Carrie McLaren & Jason Torchinsky. Faber & Faber: London, 2009.
Advertising Age
Advertising and the End of the World. (A film by Sut Jhally.)
Advertising Self-Regulatory Council
AdWeek
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. Kilbourne, Jean. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. (Originally published by the FreePress in 1999 as Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising.)
Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. Ewen, Stuart. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976 (and many others).
Commercial Alert
Conscious Capitalism
Corporate Accountability International. (Protecting people around the world from irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions.)
Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco. (A film based on Jean Kilbourne’s lecture).
Good Guide (Rates products on their ecological and health impacts.)
On Earth As It Is In Advertising: Moving from Commercial Hype to Gospel Hope. Van Eman, Sam. Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2005.
Shaping Youth (Mission is to shift negative influences of pop culture to a healthier world view for kids.)
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise and Fall of Disaster Capitalism. Klein, Naomi. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Ways of Seeing. Berger, John. New York: Viking Press, 1973.
When Corporations Rule the World (Second Edition). Korten, David C. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press, Inc., 2001.
Subliminal Advertising
The Ad and the Id: Sex, Death and Subliminal Advertising (A video by Bernard McGrane and distributed by Parallax Pictures.)
Subliminal Seduction. Key, Wilson Bryan. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Ad Archives
About Face
AdFlip
Ad Forum
Adland (Advertising information as well as access to commercials and an archive.)
AdRants
Center on Alcohol Marketing to Youth
Coloribus: Creative Advertising Archive
Gender Ads
Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Now Foundation – Love Your Body
Retronaut
Beauty and Body Image
AnyBody (Giving women a voice to challenge images of women.)
Body Positive
Campaign for Body Confidence (UK)
Campaign for Real Beauty (Dove’s campaign, including a short video illustrating how the “ideal” image is created.)
Counselor Magazine. July/August, 2014. (An extensive interview with Jean Kilbourne by William White.)
Endangered Bodies
Healthy Body Image: Teaching Kids to Eat and Love Their Bodies Too! (A comprehensive holistic guide and curriculum for upper elementary age children.)
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (A film based on Jean Kilbourne’s lecture.)
The Male Body: A New Look at Men in Public and in Private. Bordo, Susan. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000.
Miss Representation (film)
Media Awareness Network
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Real Women Project
Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness (A film based on Jean Kilbourne’s lecture.)
Stop the Beauty Madness
Thick Dumpling Skin (A community for Asian Americans to discuss body image.)
True Body Project (A journal and film created by teenage girls.)
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Bordo, Susan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Unwanted Hair and Hirsutism: A Book for Women. Amoroso, Alison. Lexington, KY: Your Health Press, 2010.
Photoshopping and Retouching Sites & Information
Eating-Related Issues
A Beautiful Body Project
A Chance to Heal (An information and advocacy organization.)
AED - Academy for Eating Disorders
Action for Healthy Kids
Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Almost Anorexic: Is My (Or My Loved One’s) Relationship with Food a Problem? Thomas, Jennifer J. and Schaefer, Jenni. Center City, MN: Hazelden, 2013.
America Walks
ANAD - National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Eating Disorders
Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back. Simon, Michele. New York: Nation Books, 2006.
Bodypositive.com (Boosting self-image at any weight.)
Does This Pregnancy Make Me Look Fat? The Essential Guide to Loving Your Body Before and After Baby. Mysko, Claire and Amadei, Magali. Deerfield Beach: Health Communications, Inc., 2009.
Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
Eating Disorders and Obesity Prevention (American Psychological Association)
Eating Disorders Blogs
Eating Disorders Coalition for Research, Policy & Action
Eating Disorders Information Network
Eat Well Guide (A free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food.)
Feeding Frenzy: The Food Industry, Marketing & the Creation of a Health Crisis
The Hidden Faces of Eating Disorders and Body Image. Reel, Justine J. and Beals, Katherine A. Reston, VA: National Association for Girls and Women in Sports, 2009.
IAEDP - International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals
The Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital
Let’s Move (Michelle Obama’s campaign.)
Men Get Eating Disorders Too
MentorConnect
National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
National Eating Disorder Information Centre (Canada)
NEDA - National Eating Disorders Association (A comprehensive list of resources is available on the website.)
Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat. Armstrong, Stephanie Covington. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2009.
Obesity Society
Partnership for a Healthier America
Gender, Race, & Images in the Media
About Face
Backlash. Faludi, Susan. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1991.
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine. Jervis, Lisa and Zeisler, Andi. New York: Farrar,Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities
Commercializing Women: Images of Asian Women in the Media. Frith, Katherine T. and Karan, Kavita (eds.). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008.
Beauty Redefined
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. Kilbourne, Jean. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. (Originally published by the Free Press in 1999 as Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising.)
The Colonizer and the Colonized. Memmi, Albert. Boston: Beacon Press, 1965.
Commercial Closet. (Focused on representations of gays and lesbians in advertising.)
Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex and Power in Music Video (A film by Sut Jhally available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Domestic Violence Outreach Program
Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work is Done. Douglas, Susan. J. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2010.
Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is. Garner, Abigail. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.
FEM Inc. (A content discovery and recommendation platform designed to promote empowering female portrayals in popular entertainment.)
Feministing
Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters. Valenti, Jessica. Emeryville, CA: Seal Press, 2007.
Gender Advertisements. Goffman, Erving. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
Generation Like (Frontline special on social media and teens)
Generation M: Misogyny in Media & Culture (A film by Thomas Keith, available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. Kimmel, Michael. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising’s Image of Women (A film based on Jean Kilbourne’s lecture, available from the Media Education Foundation.)
Laboring Under an Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. the Real Thing (A film by Vicki Elson)
The Line Campaign
The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. Katz, Jackson. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2006.
Media Watch
MediaWatch Canada
Men Can Stop Rape
Mental Health Resources for College Students
National Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence
National Organization for Men Against Sexism
National Organization for Women
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
National Women’s Health Network
The New Soft War on Women: How the Myth of Female Ascendance Is Hurting Women, Men—and Our Economy. Rivers, Caryl and Barnett, Rosalind. New York: Tarcher, 2013.
Race/Gender/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers (Second Edition). Lind, Rebecca Ann (ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2009. (Includes a chapter by Jean Kilbourne.)
Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV. Pozner, Jennifer. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2010.