"Bad girls rule" : An interdisciplinary feminist commentary on the report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 250-263

  Lerum, Kari ^c   Dworkin, Shari L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMINISM; GENDER; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMATION CENTER; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUALITY;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LIBIDO; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 70449394070     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490903079542     Document Type: Review

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