The purchase and use of goods, or the amount of this. Despite this however, it is one of the most successful consumer items on the planet. The aggressive marketing of the Barbie Doll is similar to that of another cultural icon, Coca-Cola . Where Barbie's sexuality is demure and implicit, Coke, with its reliance on bikini-clad models whose bodies come as close to Barbie's as is physically possible, is quite explicit in its portrayal of sexuality. The famous shape of the Coke bottle, intentionally designed to suggest the female body, but also phallic in shape, links the themes of food, sex and consumerism in a profound way.
Barbecue evokes themes of food, but also of sex, through the image of the bed.
Bit 3 Issues of gender enter the nexus in different ways. Hierarchies of value and meaning attach to our bodies as men and women in often unacknowledged ways. In many societies, including our own, the assumption that red meat, especially rare red meat, equals virility is unspoken, but persuasive. In the following suite of photographs by Judith Villamayor , an Argentinian artist and photographer, these themes, and others, are raised. The possible meanings evoked by the photos, however, are not limited to these themes, and they may speak to you in entirely different ways.