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The Lolita effect : the media sexualization of young girls and what we can do about it / M. Gigi Durham.
Van Pelt Library HQ799.2.M35 D98 2008
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LIBRA HQ799.2.M35 D98 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durham, Meenakshi Gigi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media and girls--United States.
- Mass media and girls.
- Girls in popular culture--United States.
- Girls in popular culture.
- Self-perception in adolescence.
- Sex in mass media.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2008.
- Summary:
- In this expose of how young girls are sexualized in today's media, the author uses examples from popular TV shows, magazines, movies, and Web sites to show for the first time all the ways in which sexuality is defined in media--often in ways detrimental to girls' healthy development--as well as effective and progressive strategies for resisting the violations and repressions that render girls sexually subordinate.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Sexy girls in the media
- How long has this been going on? Girls and the myths of sex
- The first myth: if you've got it, flaunt it
- The second myth: anatomy of a sex goddess
- The third myth: pretty babies
- The fourth myth: violence is sexy
- The fifth myth: what boys like
- The seducers: understanding myth and spectacle in the media
- Superhighway of sex: girls, media, and sexuality around the world
- Confronting spectacle: strategies for resistance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781590200636
- 1590200632
- OCLC:
- 213817012
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