Also this month, we featured a guest post by sociology graduate student Nicole Bedera.\u00a0Her criticism of the latest viral Barbie ad<\/a> prompted NPR to do a story. Listen<\/a>\u00a0to hear Nicole\u00a0and Barbie-scholar\u00a0Ann DuCille comment on\u00a0about how far the doll has, or hasn’t, come.<\/p>\n Finally, I had the opportunity to contribute to a smart analysis of energy drink marketing<\/a> at the New Yorker<\/em> and a really nice discussion of “love your body”-type marketing<\/a> at The Establishment<\/em>.<\/p>\n You like! \u00a0Here are our most appreciated posts this month:<\/strong><\/p>\n Thanks everybody!<\/span><\/p>\n Editor’s pick:<\/strong><\/p>\n Top post on Tumblr this month:<\/strong><\/p>\n Upcoming Lectures and Appearances:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hey folks, I’m all booked up for February and March, but might be able to squeeze something in later in the semester. Happy to talk about hookup culture<\/a> (that’s the favorite) or to offer some of the other talks I’ve worked up on American thinking about genital cutting<\/a>, the science of sex differences<\/a>, feminism and friendship<\/a>, public sociology<\/a>, and more<\/a>!<\/p>\n Social Media \u2018n\u2019 Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0Google+<\/a>, and\u00a0Pinterest<\/a>. \u00a0I’m on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Instagram<\/a> and most of the team is on Twitter:\u00a0@lisawade<\/a>,\u00a0@gwensharpnv<\/a>,\u00a0@familyunequal<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0@jaylivingston<\/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":" SocImages News: Sociological Images’ post on Kim Kardashian and the patriarchal bargain is mentioned in Peggy Orenstein’s forthcoming book, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. What a wonderful surprise! Also this month, we featured a guest post by sociology graduate student Nicole Bedera.\u00a0Her criticism of the latest viral Barbie ad prompted NPR to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-62168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/01\/7.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62168","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=62168"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68430,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62168\/revisions\/68430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"7\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/11\/76-500x216.png\")
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