- 225 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: The Right of Children to Be Children
- Introduction: The Pornification of Girlhood
- 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 Women's Magazines in Young Lives
- The Gaze that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics
- 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