Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising

In the fourth edition of Provocateur, sociologist Anthony J. Cortese offers an up—to—date, critical analysis of modern advertising. Though we often hear that we live in a period of unprecedented gender and racial equality, both racism and sexism persist in a most telling area—the ads with which we are inundated every day in newspapers and magazines and online. Cortese examines the ideologies surrounding gender and race by delving into the presentation of women, ethnic minorities, children, ...