rachel williams article relating to sexualisation of young people and the retail industry. Could be used for media contexts debates and issues at A2.

Sexualised images in the media is always a rich source of investigation due to the lack of imagination that appears to be a viral feature of the advertising industry. October's FHM front cover used Pixie Lott - a pop singer with a huge prepubescent female and young teenage female following- in a passive and extremely sexualised manner.The connotations attached to this image should create some interesting class discussion.













This BMW advert was used to advertise a 'used car' campaign in Greece in July 2008. It was banned. I wonder why?




http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/16/children-clothing-survey-bikini-heels

This Rachel Williams article from the Guardian on Saturday April 17th 2010 relates to the issue of the media and sexualised images. There are some excellent quotes form Anna Van Heeswijk of Object- an organisation which campaigns against the sexual objectification of women. See link below to access their website:

http://www.object.org.uk/

This resource was used by students when considering issues of sexualisation within their MEST4 critical investigations.