Miss Venezuela, Ivian Sarcos, reacts as she hears she has been named Miss World 2011. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters
Demonstrators gathered in Earls Court, west London, as the Miss World contest returned to a London venue for its 60th anniversary show. Around 50 protesters carried placards that read, among other things, "Miss Deed" and "Miss Ogynist".
Rebecca Mordan, who helped organised the protest, said the wide age range of the protesters showed that feminism was still relevant today.
"You can't pull the wool over young women's eyes," said Mordan. "They're living and growing up in a culture that sees pornography as increasingly mainstream. This is the soft end of that, reducing women down to the sum of their parts."
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