Tuesday 2 November 2010

Post-feminism and Popular Culture: Wonderbra Advert



"The Wonderbra advert showing the model Eva Herzigova looking down admiringly at her substantial cleavage"

"Wonderbra was through the mid-1990s positioned in major high street locations in the UK on full size billboards."

"The composition of the image had such a textbook “sexist ad” dimension that one could be forgiven for supposing some familiarity with both cultural studies and with feministcritiques of advertising (Judith Williamson 1987)."

"It was, in a sense, taking feminism into account by showing it to be a thing of the past, by provocatively “enacting sexism” while at the same time playing with those debates in film theory about women as the object of the gaze"

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