The sexualization of childhood
By: edited By Sharna Olfman.
Contributors: Olfman, Sharna.
Series: Childhood in America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780275999858
Subjects: Girls in popular culture -- United States; Sexually abused teenagers -- United States; Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States; Body, Human; Exploitation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sexualization of childhood: "growing older younger"/"growing younger older" / Sharna Olfman; title: Growing up in a sexualized culture; title: Pornography, lad mags, video games and boys: reviving the canary in the cultural coalmine / Matthew B. Ezzell; title: A royal juggernaut: the Disney princesses and other commercialized threats to creative play and the path to self-realization for young girls / Susan Linn; title: Girls gone grown-up: why are U.S. girls reaching puberty earlier and earlier? / Sandra Steingraber; title: Something's happening here: sexual objectification, body image distress, and eating disorders / Margo Maine; title: So sexy so soon: the sexualization of childhood / Diane E. Levin; title: Still on the auction block: the (s)exploitation of black adolescent girls in rap(e) music and hip hop culture / Carolyn M. West; title: Sexualization and child sexual abuse; title: The sexual exploitation of children and youth: redefining victimization / Sharon W. Cooper; title: Childified women: how the mainstream porn industry sells child pornography to men / Gail Dines; title: Prostitution and the sexualization of children / Melissa Farley; title: About the editor and the contributors.