Through a discourse analysis of the Lean In Collection and identifying how it operated as an institutional apparatus that claimed to empower women through stock photography, an important take away is how to be a critical consumer of media. Viewers must not take these images at face value because there are subjects, objects, and practices that are left invisible.


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