Women and animals in the media - I need your help!
Hello all!
I am new to the vegan message board but it was really interesting to read your comments about veganism! I have been vegan for 11 years now and love my vegan junk food! Moo Free chocolate is the way forward!
Anyway, I was just wondering if you could help me, I am currently doing my PhD and I am looking at perceptions of 'nature' in the UK as refracted through the representations of women and animals in the media. One of my chapters is on a cultural history of women and animals in the media (focussing on advertisments). I would be really grateful if you could send me your snapshots/photos/magazine articles/ads that you may think are appropriate e.g. women dressed as animals, animals depicted as women, women depicted as animals, meat/diary/eggs/fish feminised or sexualised? The adverts or articles can be old or new I do not mind! I would be really grateful for your help and participation.....
Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon
Cathy :lol:
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Sounds like an interesting PhD, Cathdux! The first thing I thought of was the Orangina ads with the weird female giraffe. I know its a French product but I saw the ad in the British Glamour magazine so they obviously thought that it would have appeal outside of France.
http://i855.photobucket.com/albums/a...ffepreview.jpg
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Giraffe woman! not seen that one before
In the latest Lynx advert the women are portrayed in place of the animals, going into the Ark in pairs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL75z...eature=related
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Blimey, that is weird!
As you probably already know there are a lot of images that liken women to cats or vice versa e.g. the type shown here http://meagan-marie.tumblr.com/post/...61650/chatnoir If you type "cat women advertisement" into Google you will find a load more I think.
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how about women in fairytales and their companions - birds, deer etc..?
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Hi , I do not have a picture but I did see on the back of a milk lorry in Bulgaria a picture of a buxom lady dressed in what can only be called a sexy cowprint outfit, not sure what the message was there :umm_ani:
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Very interesting project. It sound a little like that book by Carol Adams, The Pornography of Meat, which discusses the links between the advertising of meat products and pornography and the objectification of women - http://www.caroljadams.com/book_pron.html