Reviews for Selling the Dream Why Advertising Is Good Business

The average rating for Selling the Dream Why Advertising Is Good Business based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-09-10 00:00:00 Guangchen Fu 658.408

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-16 00:00:00 Tammy Doyle Poulton is awesome. I respect her ability to clearly reveal the "billion dollar brainwash" as the ugly, transparent, sad, and incomprehensibly successful ploy that is. However, the book is so much a fusion of her (perfectly reasonable) personal outrage and her thorough research, that it is sometimes hard to separate fact from angry sarcasm. And while her personal experience serves as a compelling lens through which to view the evil skinny=healthy=beautiful=rich=happy myth, it also leads her to overlook the intersections of fatphobia with other types of systematic oppression to the point where she simplifies racism and poverty and misogyny to suggest that body-hate is the only type of discrimination left for us to tackle. I'm on the search now for current material about body-acceptance that is more inclusive with a clearer distinction between narrative and fact-based research. Suggestions?