Milkshakes, lady lumps and growing up to want boobies: How the sexualisation of popular culture limits girls' Horizons

Child Abuse Review

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 372-383

  Coy, Maddy ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Every Child Matters; Gender; Girls; Sexualisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749118314     PISSN: 09529136     EISSN: 10990852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/car.1094     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Adesioye L. 2009. All hail Princess Tiana. Guardian, 20 March. American Psychological Association. 2007. Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualisation of Girls. APA: Washington, DC.
2. Australian Senate Committee. 2008. Sexualisation of Children in the Contemporary Media. Parliament House: Canberra.
3. BBC. 2008. Sasha: Beauty Queen at 11. BBC One, 31 July. BBC News. 2006. Children are taught pole dancing. Available: http://news.bbc. co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/6173805.stm [29 May 2007].
4. Bordo S. 1997. Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. University of California Press: Berkeley.
5. Brown JD, L'Engle KL, Pardun CJ, Guo G, Kenneavy K, Jackson C. 2006. Sexy media matter: Exposure to sexual content in music, movies, television, and magazines predicts black and white adolescents' sexual behavior. Pediatrics 117(4, April): 1018-1027. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2005-1406.
6. Buckingham D, Bragg S. 2003. Young People, Media and Personal Relationships. Advertising Standards Authority, British Board of Film Classification, BBC, Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission: London.
7. Children Act 2004. London: The Stationery Office.
8. Coy M, Garner M. 2009. Glamour Modelling and the Marketing of Selfsexualisation: Critical Reflections. International Journal of Cultural Studies. In press.
9. Daniel B, Featherstone B, Hooper C-A, Scourfield J. 2005. Why Gender Matters for Every Child Matters. British Journal of Social Work 35(8): 1343-1355. DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bch225.
10. DCSF 2007. The childrens plan: Buildings Brighter Futures. The Stationary Office. London.
11. Deeley L. 2008. I'm single, I'm sexy, and I'm only 13. The Times, 28 July. Department for Children, Schools and Families. 2007. Children's Plan: Building Brighter Futures. The Stationery Office: London.
12. Department for Education and Skills. 2004. Every Child Matters: Change for Children. DfES: Nottingham.
13. Department of Health. 2007. Sex, Drugs, Alcohol and Young People: A review of the Impact Drugs and Alcohol Have on Young People's Sexual Behaviour. DoH: London.
14. Gill R. 2007. Postfeminist Media Culture: Elements of a Sensibility. European Journal of Cultural Studies 10(2): 147-166. DOI: 10.1177/1367549407075898.
15. Hill Collins P. 2006. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism. Temple University Press: Philadelphia.
16. Holland J, Ramazanoglu C, Sharpe S, Thomson R. 1998. The male in the read: Young People, Heterosexuality and Power. London. Tufnell Press.
17. Home Office. 2009. Together We Can End Violence Against Women: A Consultation Paper. Home Office: London.
18. Jeffner S. 2000. Different space for action: The everyday meaning of young people's perception of rape. Paper at ESS Faculty Seminar, University of North London, May.
19. Kelly L. 2005. The Wrong Debate: Reflections on Why Force is Not the Key Issue with Respect to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation. Feminist Review 73: 139-144. DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400086.
20. Lamb S, Brown L. 2006. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes. St Martins Griffin: New York.
21. Levin D, Kilbourne J. 2008. So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids. Ballantine Books: New York.
22. Lundgren E. 1998. In Rethinking Violence Against Women, Dobash RE, Dobash RP (eds). Sage: London.
23. Martino SC, Collins RL, Elliott MN, Strachman A, Kanouse DE, Berry SH. 2006. Exposure to Degrading versus Nondegrading Music Lyrics and Sexual Behaviour among Youth. Pediatrics 118(2): 430-441. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0131.
24. McRobbie A. 2007. Illegible rage: Reflections on young women's post feminist disorders. Gender Institute, Sociology and ESRC New Femininities Series, 25 January. Available: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/pdf/20070125_McRobbie.pdf. 28 November 2008.
25. Peter J, Valkenburg PM. 2007. Adolescents' Exposure to a Sexualised Media environment and their Notions of Women as Sex Objects. Sex Roles 56: 318-395. DOI 10.1007/s11199-006-9176.
26. Peterson SH, Wingood GM, DiClemente R, Harrington K, Davies, S. 2007. Images of Sexual Stereotypes in Rap Videos and the Health of African American Female Adolescents. Journal of Women's Health 16(8): 1157-1164. DOI: 10.1089/jwh.2007.0429.
27. Reay D. 2001. 'Spice Girls', 'Nice Girls', 'Girlies' and 'Tomboys': Gender Discourses, Girls' Cultures and Femininities in the Primary Classroom. Gender and Education 13(2): 153-166. DOI: 10.1080/09540250120051178.
28. Redgrave K, Limmer M. 2005. 'It Makes You More Up For It': School Aged Young People's Perspectives on Alcohol and Sexual Health. Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council: Rochdale.
29. Rose T. 2008. The Hip-Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip-hop and Why It Matters. Basic Books: New York.
30. Rush E, La Nauze A. 2006. Letting Children be Children: Stopping the Sexualisation of Children in Australia. The Australia Institute: Manuka.
31. Templeton S-K. 2008. Surge in breast enlargement operations as teens copy celebrities. The Sunday Times, 23 March.
32. The CW Television Network. 2003-2009. America's Next Top Model.
33. UNICEF. 2007. An Overview of Child Well-being in Rich Countries: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Lives and Well-being of Children and Adolescents in Economically Advanced Nations. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre: Florence.
34. WAFE/Bliss. 2008. Women's aid launches new teen domestic violence statistics with Bliss magazine. Available: www.wafe.org.uk/domestic-violence-pressinformation. 11 March 2009.