April 24, 2002

Contact: Deb O’Donoghue

802-388-9180

do@womensafe.net

Posted: April 24, 2002

In

honor of Sexual Violence Awareness Month, media and advertising expert

Sut Jhally will examine the bind that young girls and women are trapped

within by popular culture, and how this tension affects their identities.

He will also discuss the conflicting attitudes of young men toward femininity.

The

founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation, Jhally

is the producer of the film “DreamWorlds II” as well as a dozen

more films on topics ranging from commercialism and popular culture to

violence and gender. The author of four books and numerous scholarly and

popular articles, Jhally is a professor of communications at the University

of Massachusetts.

The

event is sponsored by WomenSafe, several Middlebury College organizations

and departments (Feminist Action at Middlebury, Health and Wellness Education

Office, Xenia, Cook Commons, Office of Institutional Diversity, Department

of Music), Vermont Center for Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Abuse,

and Vermont Crime Victim Services.

For

more information, contact Deb O’Donoghue, sexual violence program coordinator,

WomenSafe, at do@womensafe.net or

802-388-9180.