Getting Real
Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls
Published on 1. April 2010
225 pages
978-1-74219-276-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Book Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: The Right of Children to Be Children
- Introduction: The Pornification of Girlhood
- Publicly sexual
- Bearing the brunt
- Supersexualise me
- The performance model of female sexuality
- Body image despair, beauty rituals, breast implants, brazilians
- The Lolita Effect
- Girl selling
- The impact of pornography: girls as service stations for boys
- Coercion, force and unwanted sex
- Violence: the new sexy
- How far we haven't come
- Getting Real
- Identifying real values, resisting dehumanisation: a new movement for women and girls
- References
- What are the Risks of Premature Sexualisation for Children?
- 1 What is sexualisation, and how does it occur?
- 2 Risks for children
- What kind of evidence is available?
- Increased body dissatisfaction
- Development of eating disorders at younger ages
- Increased self-objectification
- Disruption to healthy psychological development
- Contribution to increasing child sexual abuse
- We cannot wait for conclusive evidence to act
- 3 Responses to critics
- 4 Where to next?
- References
- The Seduction of Girls: The Human Cost
- Decline in imagination
- Slowing cognitive development
- Plummeting self-esteem
- Self-harm
- Cosmetic surgery
- Sexualised pre-schoolers
- Girls socialised to be objects
- Performance culture
- Sexual assault
- References
- Sex on the Street: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexual Harassment of Women
- References
- The Psychological and Developmental Impact of Sexualisation on Children
- Introduction
- Child sexual development
- Child sexual exploitation
- Sex sells: child exposure to sexual images
- Research
- Challenges for mental health services and child protection
- References
- Good Is the New Bad: Rethinking Sexual Freedom
- The ethic of consent
- Casual sex
- The return of self-restraint
- Who's in control?
- Bad girls
- Rebuilding
- References
- The Faking It Project: What Research Tells Us about Women's Magazines in Young Lives
- References
- The Gaze that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics
- References
- Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitive Cultural Practices that Harm Children
- References
- The Harmful Medicalisation of Sexualised Girls
- Social scripts
- Girls as medical consumers
- The disappearance of critical voices
- Chemical citizenship
- The politics of fear
- Fast forward to a healthy life
- References
- Sexualised and Trivialised: Making Equality Impossible
- The Feminist Movement and the 'Sexual Revolution' compared
- Sexualisation: the measure of women's worth
- The harms of sexualisation
- It de-values women and girls
- It creates false expectations
- It silences women and girls
- It interferes with relationships
- Conclusion
- References
- How Girlhood Was Trashed and What We Can Do to Get It Back: A Father's View
- All sex and no love
- The hall of mirrors
- The disappearance of caring adults
- What can be done?
- Finding the Courage to Get Real
- References
- One Woman's Activism: Refusing to Be Silent
- References
- Contributors
- Index
