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The Image of Woman and Man in Contemporary Advertisement by Aleksandra Czoska WSHE 2008 ''Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it'', said Stephen Leacock. He probably stated an undisputable truth as we now see our world full of advertisements everywhere we are and everywhere we go. Advertising invites us into a world of appearances, constructed by verbal and visual symbols used to associate these images with specific. To do it advertisers had to ''marry the product with something everyone, or almost everyone, thought of and wanted-sex'', where in a male-dominated industry, sex was eqaul with women. When female bodies started popping up in ads ''feminists cried foul'' because of ''women's stereotyped and objectified images'' Modern advertising is an annual multi-billion Dollar business in United States of America. Advertising is everywhere - on television, in magazines, in cinemas, on countless web pages,...

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