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Jean Kilbourne  

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  • Jean Kilbourne (1943–) is a widely recognized and highly regarded feminist scholar, lecturer, and media activist who is dedicated to raising awareness about the relationship between gendered media messages, notably advertising, and a variety of public health issues, including the connection between sexualized female images and eating disorders as well as violence against women and addiction. Kilbourne began voicing her critical perspective against the objectifying representations of the female body in advertising in the late 1960s, before many other scholars and critics had begun to understand the complex relationship between media messages and audiences' conceptions of the social world. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender in Media; Kilbourne, Jean]

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