Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Type

Book

Authors

Reist ( Melinda Tankard Reist )

ISBN 10

1876756756

ISBN 13

9781876756758

Tags

Advertising, Children's Studies, Communication & Media Studies, Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Business & Finance, Gender Studies, Media Studies

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. - from Amzon

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