Story highlights Peggy Drexler: Pirelli calendar has little nudity -- Amy Schumer, Serena Williams are partially nude -- but it's no blow to sexism

She says it -- like headlines about Christie Brinkley in a bikini at 60 -- trades on interest in women's appearance. Same as always

Peggy Drexler is the author of "Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers and the Changing American Family" and "Raising Boys Without Men." She is an assistant professor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University and a former gender scholar at Stanford University. Join her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @drpeggydrexler. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) Did you see the headlines this week? Mostly naked women making questionably feminist statements using — what else? — their bodies.

First up: The 2016 Pirelli calendar . Since the mid-1960s, tire maker Pirelli has produced an annual calendar featuring mostly models, mostly nude. This year's calendar, images from which were released this week, was a certain departure, however. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz, it features a number of nonmodels, fully clothed (for the most part), ditching, as Today put it, "sexy for strong."

Among the participants attracting the most attention are comedian and actress Amy Schumer, who poses — topless, with her arm covering her breasts — wearing her underpants and a shocked expression; tennis superstar Serena Williams, who poses— apparently topless, too -- with back to camera; and writer Fran Lebowitz, who told The New York Times she thought the call to join the calendar was, frankly, a joke.

The 77-year-old former MoMA president Agnes Gund told the Times she had a similar reaction. "That's odd," she thought, when she was invited to participate. "What's that got to do with someone like me?"

In response, the Internet has gone buck wild with praise, declaring feminist victories all over the place: