{"id":456,"date":"2008-02-21T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/21\/virginia-slims-ads-commodifying-freedom\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T20:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:17:02","slug":"virginia-slims-ads-commodifying-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/21\/virginia-slims-ads-commodifying-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Slims Ads: Commodifying Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/vslims.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169477766694881970\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2vslims.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text: &#8220;Back then, you didn&#8217;t look through your closet for something to wear. You wore your closet. You&#8217;ve come a long way, baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2VSlims.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169477388737759906\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/432VSlims.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Find your voice with Virginia Slims.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/32VSlims.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5169476087362669186\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/65432VSlims.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">This is a Virginia Slims ad from 1978. The picture above is of a woman hanging laundry out to dry and the text says, &#8220;Back then, every man gave his wife at least one day a week out of the house. You&#8217;ve come a long way, baby.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">I&#8217;m using this when I talk about the commodification of the women&#8217;s movement and how freedom has been turned into something you buy. I also like the vague &#8220;back then,&#8221; used to make now seem so much better in every way.<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Text: &#8220;Back then, you didn&#8217;t look through your closet for something to wear. You wore your closet. You&#8217;ve come a long way, baby.&#8221; Find your voice with Virginia Slims. This is a Virginia Slims ad from 1978. The picture above is of a woman hanging laundry out to dry and the text says, &#8220;Back then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,55,2095,2102,253,23703,1890,23705],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-history","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\/456","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17004,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}