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January 30, 2012

MISS REPRESENTATION: You Can’t Be What You Can’t See

Jan 30, 2012 / Press Resources

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NEWS RELEASE Embargo: Immediate, 30rd January 2012 Against the backdrop of the Leveson Enquiry where media behaviour has been put under the spotlight, it could be time to look at treatment of women across all media channels. Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new documentary Miss Representation does just that. The All Party Parliamentary Group on Body Image, Central YMCA and [...]

November 7, 2011

MissRepresentation: Challenge the Media to Portray the Real Value of Women

Nov 7, 2011 / Blog

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Newest Miss Representation Trailer from Miss Representation. MissRepresentation is a campaign that seeks to expose how society in general, and young women in particular, are being sold by the media the concept that the value of women and girls lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. The trailor for the campaign’s eponymous film, a 2011 [...]