Controversial posters from The Breast Cancer Fund's breast cancer awareness campaign will be on display throughout October at Sonoma State University. The three posters, designed to increase awareness of the disease that effects one in eight women nationwide, depict photographs of beautiful women with double and single mastectomy scars. The posters are made to look like a Cosmopolitan magazine cover, and ads for Calvin Klein perfume and Victoria's Secret lingerie, which often show large-breasted women to sell their products.
A short time after the ads were posted in Bay Area bus stops earlier this year, they were removed because several transit companies received complaints that the images were "too shocking for the public." Articles about The Breast Cancer Fund's purpose in creating the ads and the controversy they caused will be part of the display.
The SSU Women's Resource Center hosts the posters in the InterCultural Center Gallery, first floor, Student Union, October 2-27. Gallery hours are: Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m-10 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m-6 p.m. The display is free and open to the public.
For more information, call the Women's Resource Center at (707) 664-2845.
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