Getting Real

Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Noni Hazlehurst, Melinda Tankard Reist

• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781876756758
• eBook ISBN:
  9781742194219
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Estudios de género

Assembling writers, advocates, and academics, this volume spotlights the sexualization and objectification of girls and women in the media, popular culture, and society. From clothing and music to magazines and toys, this collection explores today's advertising and merchandising techniques and the effects they have on the premature portrayal of girls as sexual beings. Arguing that the sexualization of girls leads to self-destructive behaviors such as eating disorders and self-harm as well as to increased anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, this account blames corporations, the media, and the sex industry. Informative and spirited, this record will interest critics of the "pornification" movement.

INDEX

abortion

counselling, 139

late-term, 136

medical, 133–134, 138

see also RU486

abstinence, 89–90, 93

acrylic nails, 10

activism, 179–190

Adproofing Your Kids (Andrusiak), 31

Adams, Phillip, 42

addiction, 164

Adolescent Health Cohort Study in the State of Victoria, 134

‘adult sexual themes,’ 76, 80

Advanced Medical Institute, 182

advertising

changes to codes for children, 180, 182

children’s clothes, 83

complaints, 72–73

controls, 72–73

drawing on pornography, 71

fashion industry, 101–102, 106

homogenous images of women, 70

lingerie, 5

male sexual dysfunction products, 179–180, 182

objectification of women, 67–73, 182

outdoor, 67–73, 131, 179–180, 182

portrayals of women, 67–73

self regulatory system, 169

sexism, 70–71, 73

as sexual harassment, 67, 72–3

sexualised, 27–28, 30, 41, 56, 67, 80, 87, 103, 184

sexy models, 106

television, 68

use of fantasy, 120

use of young models, 30, 185

see also marketing

Advertising Standards Board (ASB), 73, 181–182

advocacy for girls, 34

Age, The, 17–18

ageism, media’s role, 69

Albury, Katherine, 152

American Psychological Association (APA), 32, 81

Taskforce on the Sexualisation of Girls, 8, 46, 48

America’s Next Top Model, 9, 27

Andrusiak, Tania, 31

Annear, Judy, 111

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Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• What are the Risks of Premature Sexualisation for Children?
• The Seduction of Girls: The Human Cost
• Sex on the Street: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexual Harassment of Women
• The Psychological and Developmental Impact of Sexualisation on Children
• Good Is the New Bad: Rethinking Sexual Freedom
• The Faking It Project: What Research Tells Us about Magazines in Young Women’s Lives
• The Gaze that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics1
• Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitive Cultural Practices that Harm Children
• The Harmful Medicalisation of Sexualised Girls
• Sexualised and Trivialised: Making Equality Impossible
• How Girlhood Was Trashed and What We Can Do to Get It Back: A Father’s View
• Finding the Courage to Get Real
• One Woman’s Activism: Refusing to Be Silent
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX