• DOI:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1997.tb00135.x
• Corpus ID: 12155745

Racial and Gender Biases in Magazine Advertising

@article{Plous1997RacialAG,
  title={Racial and Gender Biases in Magazine Advertising},
  author={Scott Plous and Dominique Neptune},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={1997},
  volume={21},
  pages={627 - 644}
}

• S. Plous, D. Neptune
• Published 1 December 1997
• Psychology
• Psychology of Women Quarterly

Recent evidence suggests that racial and gender biases in magazine advertisements may be increasing. To explore this possibility, a content analysis was performed on 10 years of fashion advertisements drawn from magazines geared toward White women, Black women, or White men (N = 1,800 advertisements from 1985–1994). The results indicated that (a) except for Black females in White women's magazines, African Americans were underrepresented in White magazines; (b) female body exposure was greater than male body exposure, and White female body exposure rose significantly during the 10 years; (c) White women were shown in low-status positions nearly twice as often as were other models; and (d) Black women wore the majority of animal prints, most of which were patterned after a predatory animal. These findings suggest that racial and gender biases in magazine advertising persisted, and in some cases increased, between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s.