{"id":3332,"date":"2008-10-14T23:12:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T04:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:14:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:14:23","slug":"the-smoking-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/14\/the-smoking-feminist\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Smoking Feminist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/10\/big-tobaccos-spin-on-womens-liberation\/\" target=\"_blank\">This New York Times article<\/a> discusses the cigarette industries co-optation of nascent feminism.\u00a0 Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5061900\/smoke-and-mirrors\" target=\"_blank\">Jezebel<\/a>, where Sadie writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the early 20th century, smoking was regarded as unladylike. In the 1920[s], realizing they were missing out on millions of potential customers PR expert Edward Bernays encouraged the American Tobacco Company to play on women&#8217;s nascent sense of modern independence&#8230; and the smoking feminist was born!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/believe_300.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3333  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/10\/believe_300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"324\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Also in co-opting feminism: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/05\/do-you-know-what-you-want\/\" target=\"_self\">make-up<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/01\/the-right-to-choose-a-gift-adapted-to-your-beauty-concerns\/\" target=\"_self\">more make-up<\/a>\u00a0and, of course,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/25\/cosmetic-surgery-as-empowerment-take-two\/\" target=\"_self\">botox<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/27\/commodifying-the-womens-movement\/\">cars and bras<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/21\/virginia-slims-ads-commodifying-freedom\/\">more cigarettes<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/10\/22\/trivializing-womens-power\/\">cleaning products, eyeglasses, and pants<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/20\/commodification-of-womens-independence\/\" target=\"_self\">diamond rings<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/06\/ladies-buy-your-independence-here\/\" target=\"_self\">credit cards, cigarettes,\u00a0and cars<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/10\/if-only-women-spent-less-time-cooking\/\" target=\"_self\">easing kitchen duty<\/a>; and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/20\/the-feminine-mystique-i-dont-think-this-is-what-betty-friedan-meant\/\" target=\"_self\">fashion<\/a> (I think).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This New York Times article discusses the cigarette industries co-optation of nascent feminism.\u00a0 Hat tip to Jezebel, where Sadie writes: In the early 20th century, smoking was regarded as unladylike. In the 1920[s], realizing they were missing out on millions of potential customers PR expert Edward Bernays encouraged the American Tobacco Company to play on [&hellip;]<\/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":[12508,2095,253,23703,1890,23705],"class_list":["post-3332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-history","tag-marketing","tag-smokingtobacco","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","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=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29794,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/29794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}