The Lolita Effect : : why the Media Sexualize Young Girls and What you can do About it

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In this expos 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.

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PUBLISHED
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 286 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781590200636
1590200632

SUBJECTS
Mass media and girls -- United States.
Girls in popular culture -- United States.
Self-perception in adolescence.
Sex in mass media.