However, "Stern", itself became the target of the new feminism when, in 1978, Schwarzer and nine other women sued Gruner + Jahr, and Nannen, on the grounds that the magazine's frequent "cover girls" denied the human dignity of women by presenting them "as a mere sexual object". The immediate occasion was a picture of the model Grace Jones, described by Schwarzer in her monthly "Emma" (7/1978) as “a black woman, naked, in her hand a phallic microphone and around the shackles - heavy chains”. (It later occurred to Schwarzer that they might also have complained of the image's racism).