Miss Representation brings all these threads together and connects them to women's participation in leadership roles, in particular, politics.

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Miss Representation compiled its favorite tweets and viewpoints into a Storify summarizing reaction.

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Kilbourne and other leaders in media activism appear in Miss Representation along with Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Condoleeza Rice, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Gloria Steinem and Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker to make the argument at the heart of the media activist movement: society measures a woman's value by her physical attractiveness and not in her capacity for leadership.

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