Should you watch Miss Representation?
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Miss Representation
Documentary · 2011
The film MISS REPRESENTATION exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. Explores the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America, and challenges the media's limited portrayal of what it means to be a powerful woman. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.
The sides of Miss Representation
- How media shows women and girls
- Women in American politics and newsrooms
- Teenagers talking about how they're seen
Miss Representation is good for you if…
- you want to hear teenage girls and women in power talk about what the media taught them.
- you like asking why so few women hold power in America.
Miss Representation is bad for you if…
- you roll your eyes at documentaries with a call to action.
- you need one person's story to follow, not a stream of interviews and clips.
About: media · gender · power
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