Foreign Policy's Painted Lady: Sex Issue Cover Model Too Sexy For "Her Burqa"
Foreign Policy quickly went viral last week, illustrating the public’s appetite for serious coverage of global gender issues. Ironically, the visuals that graced the cover and accompanied the essay suggest that FP’s editors thought they needed to appeal to a different appetite in order to sell their magazine.
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Loaded Images from a St. Petersburg Abortion Clinic
I look at them closely and feel glad neither of them are forced to be mothers at a young age.
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Newsweek Cover/Story: Working Women Just Want to be Dominated
Good news, ladies. Tired of being on the front lines in the War on Women? Newsweek just announced that what women really want to do is “surrender.”
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Campaign '12: Obama Engages in the War on Women
The message of the photo is that Obama is not only standing up for women, but is pushing the point.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: Gagged
A juxtaposition of the forces that may come together in November to represent exactly what the Obama administration wants: an energized base of support.
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Spiking the …. Uniform? Women's Olympic Volleyball Getting "More Flexible"
The International Volleyball Federation has signaled that they are willing to let women's teams wear more modest uniforms, but how did the current uniforms come to be so skimpy in the first place?
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If I Had a Hammer
This photo conveys a yet-unclassified demographic which is more a threat to the GOP in the general and local elections come November: The middle-aged, middle class woman who votes.
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Unprobed Rage
Maybe what's so striking about the photo is how Margaret Doyle's reaction should come as such a surprise.
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It's Reigning Men: Birth Control Panel As One Float in DC's Televised Patriarchy Parade
To be fair, although MSNBC producers did not bother to schedule any women pundits for this particular discussion, they did include the pink symbol for “female” as a badge of gender equity in their title graphic.
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How To Look at a Woman's Body: World Press Photo and the New Amazons
This picture as a photographic object must undergo the same difficult process of interpretation – is it a kind of pornography or a protest item that raises the awareness of FEMEN’s cause?
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Pussycats in the Clouds: Go Daddy Paints Super Bowl 2012
The visuals remind us that on Super Bowl Sunday, the only thing that viewers consume more of than chips and beer is women’s bodies.
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Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Acceptance in One Photo
You have to read the caption to understand the situation, but once you do, you get a glimpse of how real-life America has incorporated what the media feels is outside the norm.
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U.S. Air Power in Afghanistan: From Ineffective to Disastrous — but Kinder, Gentler, and a Different Kind of Sexy
Despite our counterproductive air war, media embedding continues to pay off for the Pentagon in sympathetic coverage and cool pictures -- muscular and otherwise.
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Gingrich and the Smell Test
I'm sure this behavior, in the moment, was perfectly understandable, but why a particular photo rises to the top of the daily heap is based on completely different factors.
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Salacious Sexiness in the Name of the "Larger" Feminist Ideal
What’s problematic about the PLUS Model layout is the way in which it turns the watchful eye of the male gaze on its ostensibly liberated subjects.
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(First) Ladies in Waiting
Whether it's Michelle Obama or the wives of the GOP candidates, one thing the pictures reveal is the persistence of gender norms.
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Women to the Back of the Bus: A Picture of Gender Apartheid from Israel to Borough Park's B110
Images emerging from Israel currently bear more than a little resemblance to pictures taken in Montgomery, Alabama 50+ years ago.
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