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Dove, real beauty and the racist history of skin whitening

Advertisements The Dove ad published on Facebook, which the company took down after many complaints of racial insensitivity. NayTheMUA/Facebook Liz Conor, La Trobe University This week the marketing office of Dove, a personal care brand of Unilever, found itself in ...
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How media sexism demeans women and fuels abuse by men ...

Advertisements Andrea44/flickr, CC BY-SA Virginia García Beaudoux, University of Buenos Aires The sexual abuse scandal currently embroiling media mogul Harvey Weinstein has stunned the United States, with Hollywood and the fashion industry declaring that “this way of treating women ends ...