Vintage Ads and Misogyny
Vintage ads may look different from today’s, but they continue to portray the same messages and still determine society’s idea of gender roles, what we should value and who we should be (Kilbourne, 1999).
Vintage ads may look different from today’s, but they continue to portray the same messages and still determine society’s idea of gender roles, what we should value and who we should be (Kilbourne, 1999).
“The camera doesn’t rape, or even possess, though it may presume, intrude, trespass, distort, exploit and, at the farthest reach of metaphor, assassinate – all activities that, unlike the sexual push and shove, can be conducted from a distance, and with some detachment” (Sontag, 1977).