Dean's Gender Series: The Naked Truth, Advertising’s Image of Women

Join Dean Ian Lapp during Babson CARE Week for an open dialogue with Jean Kilbourne, activist, speaker, writer, and entrepreneur whose pioneering work has helped develop and popularize the study of gender in advertising.

Kilbourne’s talk will explore if and how images of women have changed over the past 30 years and the relationship of these images to problems such as the tyranny of the beauty ideal, the sexualization of children, violence against women, and destructive stereotypes of men and masculinity. Come away with a deeper understanding of how advertising affects us all and inspiration from Kilbourne’s personal story of entrepreneurial success derived from her lifelong mission of promoting equality and media literacy.

All students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends are welcome. Lunch will be served.

Presented by Dean Lapp, the Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership, Conscious Capitalism International, and the Babson CARE Week Committee.

About Jean Kilbourne:

Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. She is the author of the award-winning book Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel and So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids. The prize-winning films based on her lectures include Killing Us Softly, Spin the Bottle, and Slim Hopes. She holds an honorary position as Senior Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women. In 2015, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Learn more about Jean Kilbourne at jeankilbourne.com.