Research Catalog

Title

Getting real : challenging the sexualisation of girls / edited by Melinda Tankard Reist.

Publication

North Melbourne, Vic. : Spinifex Press, 2009.

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Additional Authors

Tankard Reist, Melinda.

Description

208 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

'Sexualisation', 'pornification', 'corporate paedophilia', 'raunch culture'. What does it all mean? And how does it affect girls? 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. 'Getting Real' confronts and addresses the sexualisation and objectification of girls and women. Bringing together some of the most informed critics of this harmful cultural practice, it calls corporations, the media and the sex industry to account for creating a toxic environment that harms girls' health and threatens their wellbeing.

Subject

• Girls in popular culture
• Children in advertising
• Sex in advertising
• Advertising > Psychological aspects
• Body image > Social aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Preface - The Right of Children to Be Children / Noni Hazlehurst -- Introduction - The Pornification of Girlhood: We Haven't Come a Long Way Baby / Melinda Tankard Reist -- What Are the Risks of Premature Sexualisation for Children / Emma Rush -- The Seduction of Girls: The Human Cost / Maggie Hamilton -- Sex on the Street: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexual Harassment of Women / Lauren Rosewarne -- The Psychological and Developmental Impact of Sexualisation on Children / Louise Newman -- Good Is the New Bad: Rethinking Sexual Freedom / Clive Hamilton -- The Faking It Project: What Research Tells Us about Magazines in Young Women's Lives / Selena Ewing -- The Gaze that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Bill Henson and the Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics / Abigail Bray -- Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitive Cultural Practices that Harm Children / Melissa Farley -- The Harmful Medicalisation of Sexualised Girls / Renate Klein -- Sexualised and Trivialised: Making Equality Impossible / Betty McLellan -- How Girlhood Was Trashed and What We Can Do to Get It Back: A Father's View / Steve Biddulph -- Finding the Courage to Get Real / Tania Andrusiak -- One Woman's Activism: Refusing to Be Silent / Julie Gale -- Contributors -- Index

ISBN

9781876756758 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009675366

OCLC

317408481

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library