1960s cover 3

-Racism?
-Homophobia?
-Xenophobia?
-Nationalism?
-Sexism?
































On one hand, Women's rights are represented on the front cover, with a respectable medium, close up shot of the Queen. This can be seen as a feminist movement, by putting the Queen as the main image of the cover, whilst there is an image of the back of The Duke of Edinburgh lower down on the page. This was deliberately laid out this way to present Prince Phillip as a lower figure of less status and importance than the Queen. However, the covering of Prince Phillip, may be seen as an anti-feminist message, because it is showing that Phillip, a male, is not equal as the Queen, a female.



 Contrastingly, this advert of women's lingerie objectifies women, by presenting women as 'sex objects' for men to use. It also promotes a beauty standard on how society expected women to look (light-skinned, slim). This is hypocritical, as the cover clearly presents a feminist message with the Queen, however a lingerie advert which reiterates the inequality of women in society at the time. However, this advert also shows the changing attitudes towards women and sex, being not as shameful as it had been in the past, whilst also containing sexist undertones by not having any male influence in the advert, in terms of displaying male underwear.













This article on the front cover presents the racist opinions in society and politics. The term 'ape' is a known racist term for dark skinned people by implying a 'primitive' nature, and is now socially unacceptable, however representative of the racism at the time. The
article itself is implying that Spanish citizens are apes and should return to Spain, and have the UK take over Gibraltar to use as a military base. This message is therefore influencing the British readers to think this way, and heighten racism towards darker skinned people. This supports the fact that there was racism in the 60s.

 
 This further supports that British and American people in the 60s were suspicious (racist) of anyone that wasn't English (in this example, suspicion of Russian spies). This represents the Nationalism of the period.