Yesterday, I discussed the Lululemon controversy (and the petition that Marci Warhaft-Nadler and I launched) with both FOX 25 Boston and WBZ-TV (CBS) Boston. Have a look! FOX 25 Boston: Salem State Professor to Lululemon CEO: Change Your Business Practices (4 minutes)…
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Category: marketing, society
Tags: body image, body shaming, Boston, CBS Boston, Chip Wilson, Fox 25, girls, lululemon, Lululemon Athletica, Marci Warhaft-Nadler, petition, Rebecca Hains, WBZ-TV, women
“Do you think Bartoli’s dad told her when she was little, ‘you’re never going to be a looker, you’ll never be a Sharapova, so you have to be scrappy and fight?’” These words were uttered by the BBC’s John Inverdale…
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Category: society
Tags: Bartoli, beauty ideal, body image, John Inverdale, lookism, Marion Bartoli, misogyny, sexism, strength, strong woman, Tennis, Twitter, Wimbledon
I’m delighted that my book, Growing Up With Girl Power: Girlhood On Screen and in Everyday Life, is now available from my publisher, Peter Lang Press! Won’t you buy a copy? You can order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or…
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Category: academia, books
Tags: 1990s, Atomic Betty, body image, bratz, children, gender identity, girl culture, Girl Power, girls, Kim Possible, media studies, My Life as a Teenage Robot, Peter Lang, Popular culture, powerpuff girls, race, racism, riot grrrls, Spice Girls, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, Totally Spies, W.I.T.C.H.
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