anced by Gill (2008), who asserted that the figure of the autonomous, active, desiring subject became the dominant figure for representing women in the 1960s and that this particular media representation of women was responsible in part for the sexual revolution.
Goss (2007) suggests that the women's liberation movement as an offshoot of the various civil rights movements of the 1960s played into the hands of those who wanted to liberate women from social norms for the benefit of males. Indeed, Jacketta (2002) argues that magazines, like Cosmopolitan, that were written for women by women actually added to the objectification of women as sexual creatures whose primary value was their availability to men. Also, August (2008) stated that music groups such as the Rollin
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