In honor of Women's History Month, Associated Students Productions is proud to present critically acclaimed author and professor Dr. Gail Dines and her lecture, "Sexy or Sexist? Images of Women and Men in Pop Culture." The evening will be held in the Cooperage at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15 and is free to SSU students, staff and faculty. General admission is $10.
Gail Dines believes the nation is bombarded daily with media images suggesting sexual harassment is flirting, sexual assault is foreplay and rape is hot sex. Using examples from magazines, ads, films, MTV and movies, Dines illustrates how images of violence against women are so commonplace that the society is becoming desensitized to the messages these images embody. The professor will be on hand after the lecture for a question and answer period.
Dines received her Ph.D. from Salford University in England. She is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. Dines is co-editor of the best-selling media textbook, Gender, Race and Class in Media (2nd edition, Sage, 2002), used in over 200 colleges across the country. She is co-author of Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998).
Her numerous articles on pornography, the media and violence have appeared in academic journals and books, as well as in magazines and newspapers such as Newsweek, Time, Working Woman, New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, and the Daily Mail (England).
This event is sponsored by Associated Students Productions and the Student Union. For more information, phone (707) 664-2382.
