Getting Real Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

by Reist, Melinda Tankard; Hazlehurst, Noni

• ISBN13: 9781876756758
• ISBN10: 1876756756
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Spinifex Press

Summary

From advertising, art, clothing, toys, games, magazines, and the globalisation of sexual imagery, girls are growing up in the shadow cast by a pornographic vision of sexuality.

Author Biography

Melinda Tankard Reist is an author, a commentator, and an advocate with a special interest in issues affecting women and girls. She is the author of Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics and Giving Sorrow Words: Women’s Stories of Grief After Abortion. She is a spokesperson for Women’s Forum Australia and the editor of Faking It: The Female Image in Young Women’s Magazines. Noni Hazlehurst is an award-winning Australian actress whose recent work has focused on television for children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface: The Right of Children to Be Children	p. 1
Introduction: The Pornification of Girlhood: We Haven't Come a Long Way Baby	p. 5
What Are the Risks of Premature Sexualisation for Children?	p. 41
The Seduction of Girls: The Human Cost	p. 55
Sex on the Street: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexual Harassment of Women	p. 67
The Psychological and Developmental Impact of Sexualisation on Children	p. 75
Good Is the New Bad: Rethinking Sexual Freedom	p. 85
The Faking It Project: What Research Tells Us about Magazines in Young Women's Lives	p. 99
The Gaze that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics	p. 109
Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitive Cultural Practices that Harm Children	p. 119
The Harmful Medicalisation of Sexualised Girls	p. 131
Sexualised and Trivialised: Making Equality Impossible	p. 149
How Girlhood Was Trashed and What We Can Do to Get It Back: A Father's View	p. 163
Finding the Courage to Get Real	p. 171
One Woman's Activism: Refusing to Be Silent	p. 179
Contributors	p. 193
Index	p. 197
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