Jean Kilbourne News

• Women's eNews; She Was Here: The Erasure of Women from America’s Story
  Senior Scholar Jean Kilbourne, Ph.D., writes about the American government's systematic erasure of women's history, and the critical importance of women's history organizations.
• Counter Punch: Advertising vs. Democracy: An Interview with Jean Kilbourne
  Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., was interviewed by Counter Punch on the effects of advertising on democracy. 
• WWD: Forty Years After ‘Killing Us Softly,’ Creator Jean Kilbourne Still on Crusade
  Jean Kilbourne, senior scholar at WCW, discusses the damage done to young girls by depictions of women in ads, Instagram ads, and Photoshop.
• Care2: Advertising Has a Headless Woman Problem
  

  According to Jean Kilbourne, the objectification of women in the media directly contributes to real-life violence against women.
• Sydney Morning Herald: The Images of Women Making Society More Dangerous
  

  A recent study conducted by psychologists at Melbourne University and Sydney University in Australia found that men are more likely to become aggressive towards women who reject their advances when the women are sexually objectified, which supports the findings of WCW's Jean Kilbourne.
• The Fordham Observer: Sex is Not the Only Way to Sell
  Jean Kilbourne of WCW and her work, "Killing Us Softly," is mentioned in this article about sexual harassment and advertising. 
• Jean Kilbourne Presents at the Edinburgh International Festival
  

  Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2013

  In August 2013, Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., WCW senior scholar, presented the inaugural School Lecture during the Edinburgh International Festival. Each year, the Festival works with 1,500 primary and secondary school children inspiring and challenging them through education and outreach projects that encourage a deeper understanding of the world. The projects explore the diverse cultures and ideas. Internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising, Kilbourne’s lecture was delivered at the beginning of the new academic year to students aged 15 and above from schools across the city. While in Edinburgh, Kilbourne also gave a presentation for the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit about ways to help young people make sense of imagery that reinforces potentially harmful and negative stereotypes of what it means to be a man or woman in the twenty-first century, especially in a world that is increasingly technology led.
• So Sexy So Soon: Program at Deerfield High School to Address the Media’s Impact on Gender Identity
  

  Chicago Tribune, April 6, 2014
  by Staff
• How America Brands Female Athletes
  

  Forbes.com, August 27, 2013
  Alana Glass
• Buying Power: How Consumerism and the Sexualization of Children Puts All Kids at Risk
  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2013
• Makers: Women Who Make America
  

  PBS.org, February 26, 2013
• Hollywood’s Steep Hills: Gender Inequality and ‘Miss Representation’
  PopMatters December 12, 2011
  Suzanne Enzerink
  
• Miss Representation: An Interview with Writer & Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom
  The Huffington Post October 21, 2011
  Marianne Schnall
  
• Women's issues and media: Connecting the dots
  CommonsNews.org September 22, 2010
  Jeff Potter
  
• Release & Screening of Killing Us Softly--Film that Examines Advertising's Portrayal of Women
  April 21, 2010
• Commentary: So Sexy So Soon
  

  by Jean Kilbourne, WCW senior scholar
  From the Spring/Summer 2009 Research & Action Report

  Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her newest book, So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, co-authored with Diane E. Levin, was published in 2008. Her book, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, won the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2000. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes, and Calling the Shots.
• Scholar: ads sell poor health to kids
  

  WiltonBulletin.com
  April 5, 2009
• Spa kids
  

  The Columbus Dispatch
  Amy Saunders
  August 4, 2008
• What? Mommy isn't pretty?
  

  The Star-Ledger Newark
  Peggy O'Crowley
  June 11, 2008
• Activist still busy dissing advertising
  

  Muskegon Chronicle and Kalamazoo Gazette
  Sharon Schlegel
  May 4, 2008
• Womanspace Honors Author With Award
  

  Town Topics (Princeton, NJ)
  May 14, 2008
• Kilbourne to get Womanspace award
  

  The Times (Trenton, NJ)
  Lisa Coryell
  February 3, 2008
• Jean Kilbourne Speaks at Human Rights Conference in Turkey
  

  Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2008

  Jean Kilbourne, senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, is scheduled to speak at an early May 2008 conference entitled “End Human Rights Violations Against Women in the Media” at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey.
• From the sandbox to the spa
  

  USA Today
  Maria Puente
  August 1, 2006