{"id":817,"date":"2018-12-17T13:50:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?p=817"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:28:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:28:48","slug":"an-unlikely-start-playboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/herweyer\/an-unlikely-start-playboy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unlikely Start: Playboy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Strangely enough my project does not start with feminist work, it starts with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playboy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cosmopolitan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. When reading and looking through dozens of feminist works for our class, I found advertisements in these magazines that seemed pretty standard such as alcohol, cigarettes, life insurance, clothing, etc. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>When I open a magazine these are the types of advertisements I expect to see, advertisements that are driven by capitalism and materialism. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-817 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/herweyer\/an-unlikely-start-playboy\/attachment\/8cdaf3c019531ed3047eebba504a627d-vintage-advertisements-vintage-ads\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/files\/2018\/12\/8cdaf3c019531ed3047eebba504a627d-vintage-advertisements-vintage-ads-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When I opened up feminist periodicals such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quest, Heresies, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conditions,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the advertisements were so non-capitalistic it was concerning. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The advertisements were concerning in the sense that everything that was mainstream and normal (cigarettes, alcohol, etc) could not be found. All of the advertisements I saw in feminist periodicals were <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">exclusively<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in support of feminist work; these advertisements furthered the message that was being articulated within the periodical. There were no cigarettes, alcohol, or images of big breasted women with golf clubs. Through this post I want to compare mainstream advertisements (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Playboy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cosmopolitan)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and feminist advertisements (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Quest, Heresies, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conditions) <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and try to understand why they might be different.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strangely enough my project does not start with feminist work, it starts with Playboy and Cosmopolitan. When reading and looking through dozens of feminist works for our class, I found advertisements in these magazines that seemed pretty standard such as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/herweyer\/an-unlikely-start-playboy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-herweyer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}