Ithaca College

Arhlene A. Flowers, assistant professor in Integrated Marketing Communications, was published in M/C Journal, based in Australia with international content. The fully blind peer-reviewed academic journal was founded as M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analyzing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Each issue focuses on a one-word theme; the current issue's theme is "pig."

The issue’s editors in their introduction, “Pig: A Scholarly View,” wrote about Professor Flowers' article:

Feminism can be added to this list of social movements, with Arhlene Ann Flowers drawing attention to the power of language in her article “Swine Semantics in U.S. Politics: Who Put Lipstick on the Pig?”.

Flowers chronicles the linguistic battle between the presidential candidates in the US 2008 campaign over the colloquialism “lipstick on a pig”, used in a speech by then Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Flowers traces the history of this phrase, as well as the use of other porcine terms in political language including “pork barrelling” and “male chauvinist pig.”

The article can be found at: http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/278