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  1. The Beauty Myth
    How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Writer and Journalist Naomi Wolf calls the current all pervasive need for women to attain an intangible physical beauty ideal the "beauty myth". It is calculated to disenpower women and is a complex pervasive backlash againts feminism. Women are seduced by the beauty myth because it holds promise of power. Women will remain tied to this myth until they realize that power may be revoked as easily as granted. The beauty myth was created to hold women's progress back not to liberate it.
  2. Beyond the Image: A guide to films about women and change
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
  3. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  4. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  5. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  6. Miss Representation
    Resource Type: Film
    Published: 2011
    Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman.
  7. Studio D's Imagined Community
    From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Published in In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, Kay Armitage et al., eds. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1999
  8. Ugandan TV Personality Sacked After Her Nude Photos Appear Online
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On May 21 Anita Kyarimpa, popularly known as Anita Fabiola, the host of a reality dating TV show Be My Date on Nation Media's TV channel NTV Uganda, had nude photos leaked onto social media. Subsequently Anita was forced to resign.
  9. Women and Film
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    1985 catalogue of DEC Films' women's collection.

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