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 * Jamie Lee Curtis & Feminism **



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 * Here are a few open-access sources to help prepare for hearing Jamie Lee Curtis at ALA Annual 2016: **

"Ironically, as the chapter will demonstrate, the body politics surrounding Jamie Lee Curtis have been contradictory and ambivalent. Some feminists and journalists have applauded her outspokenness on issues surrounding the star body, suggesting that showing an imperfect body or face is an act of courage in the youth-obsessed movie industry, while others have cautioned that Curtis is only helping to perpetuate the values the gesture appears to challenge."
 * [|"The Closest Thing to Perfect": Celebrity and the Body Politics of Jamie Lee Curtis] Christina Burr in Gender, Health, and Popular Culture, edited by Cheryl Krasnick Walsh (Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2011), partially available via Google Books. **

In August 2002 actress Jamie Lee Curtis did a photo shoot for the magazine More that resulted in Ms. Magazine naming her one of their Women of the Year for 2002 ... It only takes one to three minutes of flipping through a fashion magazine to make women feel inferior, according to a study done by Laura Mintz, associate professor of education and counseling psychology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Many outside the feminist world might laugh at this discovery and say people know those images are not real. But if that is true, why do eating disorders affect five to ten million girls and more women get plastic surgery each year?"
 * Jamie Lee Curtis: No Barbie Doll Melissa Ostrow, Off Our Backs, March 2002, via JSTOR (not open access, but JSTOR's Register & Read allows anyone to read up to 3 articles every 2 weeks).**

" In the confused post-feminist wilderness, it is dispiriting to see what straws get clutched at in the struggle to find modern role models. The latest is perhaps understandable, if not forgivable, only because she is also one of the most unlikely. The 43-year-old actress Jamie Lee Curtis, a stunning, androgynous beauty, largely thanks to the genetic combination of her toothsome parents Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, has been photographed for an American magazine, wearing only a triumphant grin and the kind of unflattering sports bra and pants set that one hopes never to be wearing if run down in the street by a bus. "
 * Is this a Feminist Statement? Muriel Gray, The Guardian, August 2002. **

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Jamie Lee Curtis introduces Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a rally: ''I'm going to play all of our women's card. We are playing with a full deck."


 * Check out Jamie Lee Curtis on Twitter.**

"Activia commercials also reinforce stereotypically feminine ways of being. For example, commercials create space for open discussions about irregularity and digestive health only within the scope of “girl talk” between friends or with Jamie Lee Curtis, who Activia commercials portray as a warm and trustworthy confidant. These discussions often occur in “feminine” settings, such as girls’ night out or shopping trips."
 * Toned Tummies and Bloated Bellies: Activia Yogurt and Gendered Digestion Emily Contois, Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, May 2014.**