Media Mayhem
There’s plenty going on in the media world these days and if I ever finish grading the mountain of essays on my dining room table I will actually sit down and write some thoughtful posts about the latest happenings. Until then, here’s a roundup:
YMY gets props
Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, a book which includes an essay by yours truly, made Publisher’s Weekly Top 100 Books of 2009. Yay us!
Sex and the Simpsons
The ladies at Feministing.com wrote about Playboy’s announcement that Marge Simpson will grace the cover of this month’s issue of the magazine. Chloe Angyal wrote: “Given its long-standing tradition of printing photos of women whose bodies look like cartoonish exaggerations of the female form, it was only a matter of time before Playboy gave up on human women altogether, and started putting actual cartoons in the centerfold.”
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