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Effects of 'Images of Violence Against Women' in the media
Lecture on the issue of a woman's role in pornography
Youngchi Chang/ Staff Writer
Issue date: 3/7/05 Section: News
As pornography has grown into an industry that grosses billions of dollars each year, it has generated problems that depict women's images in the media.
As part of the effort to give more awareness about women's history, Eastern will hold the lecture, "Images of Violence Against Women" at 7 p.m. in Lumpkin Hall.
Pornography has always been a form of media that sparks heated debate and generates emotional arguments, said Diana Slaviero, coordinator of women's studies.
"It is important to discuss the effects that the production and consumption of sexually violent pornography have created on women in our society," Slaviero said.
Keynote speaker, Gail Dines, sociology and women's studies professor at Wheelock College in Boston, will discuss the images of women in pornography and mainstream media.
"Although women have made great strides, we are still the oppressed of the world," Dines said. "The image of women in the media is sexist and depicts women as dehumanized sex objects."
Dine said the negative images in the media train men to think of women as subservient and less than them. This translates into the oppression of women in law, education, work, religion and family, she said.
Dines will highlight the ways in which the codes and conventions of pornography images filter down to popular media such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, MTV and box-office movies.
"I will address the issue of corporate control of our culture," Dines said. "Never before have so few owned so much, and this threatens the democratic structure of our society."
Her speech aims to provide audiences with media literacy skills, which are ways to make today's society more democratic and equal.
"We live in a world saturated with media images, and few of us learn how to critically analyze these images," Dines said. "We all need to become sophisticated consumers of images so that we can take some of the power away from the media."
As part of the effort to give more awareness about women's history, Eastern will hold the lecture, "Images of Violence Against Women" at 7 p.m. in Lumpkin Hall.
Pornography has always been a form of media that sparks heated debate and generates emotional arguments, said Diana Slaviero, coordinator of women's studies.
"It is important to discuss the effects that the production and consumption of sexually violent pornography have created on women in our society," Slaviero said.
Keynote speaker, Gail Dines, sociology and women's studies professor at Wheelock College in Boston, will discuss the images of women in pornography and mainstream media.
"Although women have made great strides, we are still the oppressed of the world," Dines said. "The image of women in the media is sexist and depicts women as dehumanized sex objects."
Dine said the negative images in the media train men to think of women as subservient and less than them. This translates into the oppression of women in law, education, work, religion and family, she said.
Dines will highlight the ways in which the codes and conventions of pornography images filter down to popular media such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, MTV and box-office movies.
"I will address the issue of corporate control of our culture," Dines said. "Never before have so few owned so much, and this threatens the democratic structure of our society."
Her speech aims to provide audiences with media literacy skills, which are ways to make today's society more democratic and equal.
"We live in a world saturated with media images, and few of us learn how to critically analyze these images," Dines said. "We all need to become sophisticated consumers of images so that we can take some of the power away from the media."
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