3 Quotes & Sayings By Jean Kilbourne

Jean Kilbourne is a social psychologist, photographer, and filmmaker. She is credited with taking the first still photography of Americans "at work" in the early 1980s. Her photographs were included in the landmark report Sexuality and Gender in Advertising funded by the Ford Foundation. Since then she has produced documentaries and other media on topics such as sexualization of women, beauty ideals, and campaigns to promote self-esteem Read more

Kilbourne has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota and is currently Professor Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York where she was a founding faculty member.

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Indeed the very worst kind of man for a women to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the one considered most sexy and desirable in the popular culture. Jean Kilbourne
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But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence partly because they cannot possibly escape the message that their bodies are objects, and imperfect objects at that. Boys learn that masculinity requires a kind of ruthlessness, even brutality. Violence becomes inevitable. Jean Kilbourne