Women Get Hurt Jean Kilbourne Analysis

Women Are Human Too; NOT Objects After years of women being objectified there is no way of going back. For the longest time women have been seen as objects and because of that men do not know where to stop. Women are used for advertising to get men’s attention and that causes so many other problems; as explained in the article “Two Ways a Women Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne. In the article “Do Real Women Have Curves?”-Paradoxical body image among Latinas in New York city; Anahi Viladrich, Ming-Chin Yeh, Nancy Bruning and Rachael Weiss goes over how these expectation of women affects them physically and mentally. Women are always finding ways to make their selves more beautiful rather it be weight loss or the newest makeup trends. In the last article that I’m getting my information from is “From Girls’ Bodies, Girls’ Selves: Body Image, Identity, and Sexuality” by Elline Lipkin she explains the history of girls and women. Women are trying to live up to the standards that society is setting for them and it has always been like that throughout history. Before getting into more details about women I will go over some key terms that I will use throughout my essay. Girls studies- “examines the history and theories of studying girls’ lives.” Body projects- is basically women changing any aspect of their …show more content…
she is a “award winning author and educator who is best known for her lively campus lectures on the effects on young people.” She found her interest in the subject when she was getting rewarded more for her looks then her intelligence. A lot of advertisements have underlining sexual content that give men the idea that that is what woman want. Kilbourne says, “sex in advertising is pornographic because it is dehumanizing and objectifies people, especially women”. The reason this can be dangerous is because pornography is a “glorification of rape and