[Vwoolf] staging female author suicides

[Melanie White]

Apart from VW, the characters in The Hours were fictional, and VW's death
was decades ago, whereas Iris Chang's family and loved ones probably are
still very much processing their grief over her suicide. The image of her
was breathtakingly insensitive and offensive to me for that reason. 

 

From: vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
[mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Kimberly
Coates
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:27 PM
To: Gregory Jordan Dekter; Anne Margaret Daniel
Cc: vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides

 

Greg:

 

There is no comparison. The VICE spread is using suicide to sell fashion and
in doing so it glamorizes and aestheticizes female bodies in pain. It also
takes our attention far away from the amazing work all of these women
accomplished. You would think that in an issue announcing itself as covering
Women's Fiction that the work would be their concern. Whatever you want to
say about Michael Cunningham and/or the film version of his novel The Hours,
he isn't guilty of promoting suicide to sell shoes and vintage attire!

 

Kim

 

Kimberly Coates, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Affiliate Faculty Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/American Culture
Studies

Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green, OH 43403

Office Phone: 419-372-9189

 

 

From: Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:08 PM
To: Anne Margaret Daniel <daniela at newschool.edu>
Cc: "vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu"
<vwoolf at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides

 

I'm just wondering of those who oppose this, are you equally offended by the
portrayal of the same event in "The Hours"?

On 18 June 2013 15:03, Anne Margaret Daniel <daniela at newschool.edu> wrote:

VICE has removed the online photos, not apologizing very much ("to anyone
who was hurt or offended") and stating, defensively, that their "main goal
is to create artful images, with the fashion message following, rather than
leading."  Taken down online, but still in print.    

Here is the Vice statement:
http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6

And here, still online at Inquisitr, is the photo of the model portraying
Woolf, standing in water and holding a large stone.  No words for it,
really.

http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/

 

 

 

 

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <melanie.white at comcast.net>
wrote:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draw
s-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source
<http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-dra
ws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_
campaign=20130617> &utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617

 

Someone said this has been taken down now. 


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