Comments on: Dead-Looking Women in Fashion Imagery (Possibly NSFW)

By: Downcast, Decapitated and Dead: Why Don’t Women on Book Covers and in Ads Stare Back? | Adios Barbie

Tue, 22 May 2012 12:56:40 +0000

[...] hurt, portraying girls and women in passive/vulnerable/violated/dead appearing poses (like these or these, NSFW, TRIGGER WARNING) ultimately contributes to a culture that fetishizes and sexualizes violence [...]

By: Striking Poses « Dispatches from Media 70

Striking Poses « Dispatches from Media 70 — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:00:18 +0000

[...] When Prof. Siegel pulled up the Dolce & Gabbana fashion ad, he made a comment about how the model were positioned in such a way to suggest a corpse. It’s an observation about the fashion industry that’s been echoed and documented in a number of blog posts by Sociological Pages (in sometimes pretty graphic detail, so warning!) here, here and here. [...]

By: Where the wild roses fuck my shit up « Underline Notes

Where the wild roses fuck my shit up « Underline Notes — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:47:08 +0000

[...] women are treated as something titillating or “fashionable“. And violence against women… well in a world in which the rates of rape and domestic [...]

By: Shawl » Blog Archive » pictures of murdered women

Shawl » Blog Archive » pictures of murdered women — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:46:20 +0000

[...] Dead-Looking Women in Fashion Imagery (Possibly NSFW … Aug 28, 2009… a NYT fashion slideshow, and the вЂњAmerica's Next Top ModelвЂќ murdered women photos, for instance. … [...]

By: Shansky

Shansky — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:50:27 +0000

I have never commented on here, and I’m nervous, but I have a thought: the sexualization of violence/corpses is, in actuality, the sexualization of passivity. Women are consistently depicted as passively “sexy” rather than actively “sexual.” An image of a woman who wants sex, is seeking sex or truly enjoys sex would be threatening and alienating to our gender binary. Men are the agents of sexual pleasure. The seekers of coitus. These images reinforce our ideology that sex is something that men DO TO women. The more passive women are, the less pressure there is on men to pleasure them (ignoring the fact that sex is, of course, a joint effort and that women, of course, enjoy it).

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:03:55 +0000

Thank you for that. It puts one of my small concerns to rest, and makes kitties even cuddlier! :D

By: ElkBallet

ElkBallet — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:24:46 +0000

Unsurprising given that Hustler once tried to get rights to use crime scene photos of a murdered hiker to sexify them. I think she was actually decapitated. Thankfully they were denied.

By: From the Stacks: “I Wish the Burglar Had Stolen…” My Wife? : Ms Magazine Blog

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:10:08 +0000

[...] Thank goodness the times when companies used violence against women to sell stuff are over. Oh wait … they’re not! Especially if you’re selling stuff that’s really, really expensive. [...]

By: Selling CPR with Sex (NSFW, Trigger Warning) » Sociological Images

Selling CPR with Sex (NSFW, Trigger Warning) » Sociological Images — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:46:54 +0000

[...] But then I thought again: in a society that regularly sexualizes violence and murder, the sexualization of near-death is par for the course (which, of course, is why it didn’t strike me as [...]

By: ROB

ROB — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:39:16 +0000

yea im with you on that one …… i think she needs a little help !!!!!!!!!!! pronto!

By: ROB

ROB — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:37:33 +0000

well i don’t think the pics work .

By: ROB

ROB — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 20:36:13 +0000

i have nothing to say ! HAHAHAAHAH

By: Yael

Yael — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:38:55 +0000

I think part of the reason there’s no backlash against the Palmer book is because (a) it is her _own_ initiative and her _own_ project – and as an art project, it has more freedom in this context, and (b) the Palmer-Gaiman combo are known to be fans of the macabre (like the poster above me also mentioned), so if anything, I think this would be seen as related to that.

I notice you have absolutely no mention of the texts that accompany the pictures. Why is that?

By: Sociological Images Update (Mar. 2010) » Sociological Images

Sociological Images Update (Mar. 2010) » Sociological Images — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:02:55 +0000

[...] Martha sent us some images from the book Who Killed Amanda Palmer? in which Palmer is posed as though she’s been murdered. We added them to our post on images that show dead-looking women. [...]

By: Hanni

Hanni — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:32:16 +0000

Amanda Palmer likes playing dead, and she likes being naked. I don’t think she’s playing into fetishization…