The purpose of this paper is to highlight the historical context of gender stereotypes in
advertising and then examine the scholarship related to gender stereotypes. Gender …

Attitudes toward men's violence against women shape both the perpetration of violence
against women and responses to this violence by the victim and others around her. For …

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in
Psychology! Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men? If …

A number of journalists and scholars have pointed to the sexual objectification of women
and men in popular media to argue that Western culture has become “sexualized” or even …

Objectification theory asserts that self-objectification, which manifests as self-surveillance,
leads to increased body shame and subsequent eating pathology. Although evidence …

Partially in response to the recent articulation of asexual identities and communities,
scholars have begun to use the term compulsory sexuality to describe the assumption that …

This study analyzes how teens represent themselves through their profile photographs on a
popular nonymous chat site. Using visual content analysis methods, we analyzed 400 profile …

Wir leben in einer visuellen Medienkultur, einer „visual culture “, in der wir ständig mit
„Bildern “verschiedenster Art konfrontiert sind: Werbung versucht, uns mit perfekt …

Researchers have often attempted to answer the question,'Does sex sell?'In this article, we
present a meta-analysis of studies that used an experiment to test the effect of sexual …

The present study tested a sociocultural model of women's sexual satisfaction grounded in
Objectification Theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). One hundred and one college women …