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According to Rosalind Gill, the new way of representing women in the 1990s and 2000s came to be reflected in the preponderance of ads that featured close-up shots of women's midriffs and belly buttons, which supposedly spoke to an increasing empowerment of women. But for Jean Kilbourne (and Terri Conley and Laura Ramsey), this visual focus on a single, discrete, body part, separate from the rest of the woman's body, could be understood as the female models being O a. empowered O b. branded O c. fetishized O d. objectified