Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

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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 movement. 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