Deadly Persuasion: Advertising and Addiction

Speaker: 
Jean Kilbourne
 
22 Feb 2001
 
8:00 PM
 
Sun Room, Memorial Union

Jean Kilbourne is a nationally recognized expert on addictions, gender issues, and the media, who has served as an adviser to former Surgeons General C. Everett Koop and Antonia Novello. She is the author of Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising. Her first film "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women" are among the most popular educational films of all time.
Part of the National Affairs Series