Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

by Melinda Tankard Reist

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1876756756
• ISBN13: 9781876756758
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"