“Savage Beauty”: representations of women as animals in PETA’s campaigns and Alexander McQueen’s fashion shows by Diana Villanueva Romero

“…In 1990s PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) initiated a campaign against the fur industry featuring famous Playboy playmates. This provoked the reaction of some feminists who described it as pornographic. …”
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What Makes Jessica Rabbit Sexy? Contrasting Roles of Waist and Hip Size by William D. Lassek, Steven J. C. Gaulin

“…To explore the relationships of these anthropometric parameters with attractiveness across a much broader spectrum of attractiveness, we employ three quite different samples: a large sample of college women, a larger sample of Playboy Playmates of the Month than that has been previously examined, and a large pool of imaginary women (e.g., cartoon, video game, graphic novel characters) chosen as the “most attractive” by university students. …”
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