Hollywood’s Vision of Women as Shoe-obsessed Diet Freaks
Entertainment • February 2009 • Views: 319
The modern Hollywood portrayal of women is increasingly a heroine who is hysterical, weight-obsessed and only thinks of men, an Oxford academic claims.
Dr Diane Purkiss, a feminist historian and fellow of Oxford University , has argued that over the past five decades the movie industry has made its female leads ‘dumber and dumber’.
She suggests that these cartoon protagonists are merely reflecting a decline in our own culture into one that, for women, is image-obsessed.