Is childhood becoming too sexualized?
By: Olivia Ferguson and Hayley Mitchell Haugen, book editors
Series: At issue; At issue
Publisher: Greenhaven Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farmington Hills, MI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780737748840; 9780737748857
Subjects: Children and sex; Sexual behavior; Juvenile literature; Children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sexualization of girls is harmful / AboutKidsHealth; title: Sexualization of girls teaches boys to be sexually violent / Rachel Bell; title: The sexualization of children socializes boys to become sexual predators / Carol Platt Liebau, as told to Kathryn Jean Lopez; title: American culture rewards girls for eroticism / Lawrence Downes; title: The physical aggression encouraged in boys is a form of sexualization / Elizabeth Anne Wood; title: Sexualization of children is not the problem it is reported to be / Kerry Howley; title: Feminists are to blame for the sexualization of girls / Joseph A. D'Agostino; title: Legislators need to do more to protect children from sexual exploitation / Mary Graw Leary; title: Mothers should resist norms that lead to the sexualization of girls / Debra Curtis; title: Fathers should not exploit their daughters' sexuality / Rebecca Traister; title: The sexualization of teen celebrities is ethically questionable / Jack Marshall; title: Corporate media sexualizes young girls / M. Gigi Durham, as told to Tana Ganeva; title: Gay and lesbian children are coming out earlier / Benoit Denizet-Lewis; title: Teens are not as sexually promiscuous as adults fear / Cathy Young.