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The sexualization of girls and girlhood
"For the past several years, child advocates, parents, and educators have expressed concern over the sexualization of girls. Has the culture sexual objectification of girls and women increased? Are younger and younger girls sold a "sexed-up" version of femininity, and are adult women sold a girlish sexuality? The Sexualization of Girls and Girlhood: Causes, Consequences, and Resistance includes the best empirical research, theory, and practice stemming from the report of the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Contributors discuss evidence for this phenomenon from media and marketing, to interpersonal interaction, to girls' own effect to fashion themselves after sexualized role models around them. A variety of consequences of the sexualization of girls and girlhood - for girls themselves, for others, and for society at large - are presented....
