“Mythologized for Its Misogyny”

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Carolyn Bronstein ◽  
Jacqueline Lambiase
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Feminist Consciousness

Much like other creative professions, the advertising industry and especially its creative departments have been host to a culture of discrimination and sexual harassment, with recent high-profile incidents leading to the formation of Time's Up/Advertising in 2018. These incidents have revived feminist consciousness-raising in new forms and old, inspiring new commitments to fighting sexism in agencies. This essay discusses the origins of Time's Up/Advertising and its initial actions, as well as the challenges the movement will face in its efforts to rid the advertising industry of misogyny. These problems must be solved if advertising aspires to remain a viable creative industry.

When Feminism Went to Market

2019 ◽  
pp. 418-436
Author(s):  
Rachel R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Women's Work ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Women’S Work ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Material Conditions

The comics anthology has long served as a productive format by which creators with a feminist consciousness have made their individual efforts visible and elaborated their networks of other like-minded creators. The material conditions under which comics anthologies with a feminist consciousness are made and received reveal how comics are a unique medium whose reach extends beyond the spaces where we expect to find feminist discourse, such as the feminist bookstore, rally, or consciousness-raising meeting. Looking at how feminist comics anthologies address these material conditions, this chapter considers how Sarah Dyer’s Action Girl Comics anthology in the early 1990s is inflected by Dyer’s history as a grass-roots zine maker and situates itself within the larger comics industry. The chapter then turns to Dyer’s archive at the Sallie Bingham Center to elaborate how her all-girl comics anthology’s mission to saturate the comics marketplace with women’s work actually played out.

Shameless dicks: On male privilege, dick pic scandals, and public exposure

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanna Paasonen ◽  
Jenny Sundén
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Media Studies ◽  
Public Exposure ◽  
Revenge Porn ◽  
Social Privilege

Academic debates on shame and the involuntary networked circulation of naked pictures have largely focused on instances of hacked accounts of female celebrities, on revenge porn, and interconnected forms of slut-shaming. Meanwhile, dick pics have been predominantly examined as vehicles of sexual harassment within heterosexual contexts. Taking a somewhat different approach, this article examines leaked or otherwise involuntarily exposed dick pics of men of notable social privilege, asking what kinds of media events such leaked data assemble, how penises become sites of public interest and attention, and how these bodies may be able to escape circuits of public shaming. By focusing on high-profile incidents on an international scale during the past decade, this article moves from the leaked shots of male politicians as governance through shaming to body-shaming targeted at Harvey Weinstein, to Jeff Bezos’s refusal to be shamed through his hacked dick pic, and to an accidentally self-published shaft shot of Lars Ohly, a Swedish politician, we examine the agency afforded by social privilege to slide through shame rather than be stuck in it. By building on feminist media studies and affect inquiry, we attend to the specificities of these attempts to shame, their connections to and disconnections from slut-shaming, and the possibilities and spaces offered for laughter within this all.

Mapping the Egyptian Women’s Anti–Sexual Harassment Campaigns

Women Rising ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 245-258
Author(s):  
Theresa Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The State ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
International Attention ◽  
Victims Of Violence ◽  
Media Narratives

In this chapter, Theresa Hunt explores the trajectory of the anti–sexual harassment campaigns in Egypt as one example of women’s prerevolution and antiregime protest. She examines the extensive campaigns of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights, El Nadim Center for the Management and Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence, and the new, technology-fueled project HarassMap. By strategically gaining national and even international attention, these campaigns engaged in critique of the state’s failure to address the alarming level of sexual harassment on Cairo’s streets and pressured the state to develop appropriate policy. As these organizations combined consciousness raising with subversion of state obstacles and mobilization of the public, their work reflects aspects of the 2011 revolution that mainstream media narratives find compelling but rarely attribute to women’s activism.

Consciousness-Raising

2020 ◽  
pp. 232-245
Author(s):  
Tabatha Leggett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
First Person ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Collective Voice ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter examines consciousness-raising as a means of challenging oppression. Bringing the #MeToo movement into contact with first-person accounts and criticisms of the radical feminist consciousness-raising groups that formed in New York and Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, it suggests that they remain an essential force to challenge female oppression today. It touches on the various ways that patriarchal structures silence women, how consciousness-raising undercuts this silencing by giving women a collective voice, and how social media can amplify this voice. Finally, it addresses common criticisms of consciousness-raising movements, especially concerning the disproportionate focus on white women’s concerns that they have historically represented and universalized. It touches on Kimberlé Crenhaw’s theory of intersectionality as well as Paulo Friere’s conception of critical consciousness theory to explore the notion of truly inclusive consciousness-raising movements.

scholarly journals Dimensions of the creative industry in individual regions of the Slovak Republic

2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 02008
Author(s):  
Slavka Šagátová
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Definition Of

The creative industries are an area of the economy that uses human creativity for their production and thus becomes an important sector in promoting the ideas of sustainable development. However, differences of opinion in the definition of the term keat industry complicate the study of its potential. The present article therefore focuses on identifying the basic areas of the creative industries and revealing their links to other elements of the economy. It also examines the representation of the creative industry in individual regions of the Slovak Republic in terms of their number and achieved revenues. The survey confirms the presence of the creative industry in all regions of the Slovak Republic. Its greatest concentration is in large cities and the most represented industry is the advertising industry.

Struggling to Achieve High Creative Standards in Romanian Advertising Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-212
Author(s):  
Mădălina Moraru ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Advertising Agency ◽  
Social Barriers ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Planning Department

The creative industry daily faces genuine challenges in its work when it comes to advertising and meeting clients’ demands. Indeed, technology and the necessity of updating creativity resources urge on new approaches during campaigns, at least in the creative department. Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation stand for essential aspects in challenging new resources of creativity in a field where copywriters and art directors unfold incredibly sensitive messages based on strong and relevant insights. The present paper aims to point out the difficulties and opportunities of creative work in any advertising agency, by exploring the purpose, the barriers and the prospects of this activity in the context of a complex relationship between client and agency, brand and consumers. One could perhaps say that copywriters are just gifted people able to simply follow instructions given by the planning department. Actually, they have their own psychological and social barriers, which represent real challenges. Therefore, we have investigated these issues by conducting semi-structured interviews based on their creative experiences in both cases, as juniors and seniors, respectively. The data collected via semi-structured interviews are investigated by using content analysis.

Awareness and Change

Ethical Life ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Webb Keane
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Feminist Consciousness ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter discusses the idea of ethical history, looking at situations in which hitherto taken-for-granted aspects of everyday life came to be the focus of attention, such as feminist consciousness-raising in the 1960s and 1970s. Indeed, the American feminist movement is the invention and promulgation of the technique of consciousness-raising. Consciousness-raising is interesting for several reasons: it took very seriously the effects of problematizing the habits of everyday life, it succeeded in changing the descriptions and evaluations of actions and persons that were available for many Americans, and it ultimately foundered, in part, on an unresolved tension between subjective experience and objective social analysis. The chapter then argues that processes like this play an important role in the historical transformations of ethical and moral worlds.

A Review of Sexual Harassment Prevention Practices: Toward a Nonprofit Research Agenda

2021 ◽  
pp. 089976402110089
Author(s):  
Erynn E. Beaton ◽  
Megan LePere-Schloop ◽  
Rebecca Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Sexual Harassment Prevention

Sexual harassment has garnered renewed attention with a wave of allegations against high profile men, including nonprofit executives. Given its legal, organizational, and ethical implications for nonprofit organizations and the sector, it is imperative that nonprofits take steps to prevent sexual harassment. Because there is limited research on sexual harassment in the nonprofit literature, we know little about what nonprofits are doing, or what they should be doing. This research note uses qualitative analysis to explore the anti-harassment practices recommended to nonprofit practitioners and compares these practices to academic research to develop a nonprofit scholarly research agenda. We identify a series of important questions nonprofit scholars could pursue to improve our knowledge of the issue and contribute to both research and practice.

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