{"id":10323,"date":"2009-06-28T11:18:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T16:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10323"},"modified":"2017-11-03T21:45:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T02:45:09","slug":"youve-got-your-own-cigarette-now-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/28\/youve-got-your-own-cigarette-now-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"“You’ve Got Your Own Cigarette Now, Baby!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

These Virginia Slims ads from 1969<\/a>, sent in by Fred H., show how the idea of “progress” was as useful then as it is now (see also this post on the subject<\/a>). The commercials suggests that the right to smoke is part and parcel of women’s liberation.<\/p>\n

Fred also notes the suggestion that “petite things are meant for women.” Notice that the last commercial, on a different theme, uses not only the “slim” analogy, but also calls the cigarette “beautiful.”<\/p>\n

[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vXUbkIkwn2Y[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

For other examples of co-optation, see these posts using feminism to sell guns (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), beauty products (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), botox<\/a>, diamond rings<\/a>, cars and credit cards<\/a>, cars and bras<\/a>, pornography<\/a>, cleaning products, panties, and eyeglasses<\/a>, washing machines<\/a>, and, of course, cigarettes (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These Virginia Slims ads from 1969, sent in by Fred H., show how the idea of “progress” was as useful then as it is now (see also this post on the subject). The commercials suggests that the right to smoke is part and parcel of women’s liberation. Fred also notes the suggestion that “petite things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2095,2102,253,23705],"class_list":["post-10323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-history","tag-history","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10323"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72086,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10323\/revisions\/72086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}