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Gender and Education, Vol. 24, No. 3, 01 May 2012;
Editorial: Culture, policy and the un/marked child: fragments of the sexualisation debates / D. Epstein, M. J. Kehily & E. Renold.
Contextualising the sexualisation of girls debate: innocence, experience and young female sexuality / Mary Jane Kehily.
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: how history can help us get past the panic / R. Danielle Egan & Gail Louise Hawkes.
Definitions, discourses and dilemmas: policy and academic engagement with the sexualisation of popular culture / Maddy Coy & Maria Garner.
Viewpoints: Sexualisation’s four faces: sexualisation and gender stereotyping in the Bailey Review / Meg Barker & Robbie Duschinsky.
What I heard about sexualisation…: or conversations with my inner Barbie / Sara Bragg.
New girl heroes: the rise of popular feminist commentators in an era of sexualisation / Claire Elizabeth Charles.
The missing link: the sexualisation of culture and men / Maria Garner.
Slut-shaming, girl power and ‘sexualisation’: thinking through the politics of the international SlutWalks with teen girls / Jessica Ringrose & Emma Renold.
Book reviews
The importance of being innocent: why we worry about children / Jennifer Lyttleton-Smith.
Gill, R. (2009). Beyond the ‘Sexualization of Culture’ Thesis: An Intersectional Analysis of ‘Sixpacks’,’Midriffs’ and ‘Hot Lesbians’ in Advertising. Sexualities, 12(2): 137-160.
Gill, R. (2012). The Sexualisation of Culture?. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(7), 483-498.
Gill, R. (2012a). Media, empowerment and the ‘sexualization of culture’ debates. Sex Roles, 66, 736-745.
Gill, R. (2012b). The sexualisation of culture? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6(7), 483-498. doi:doi:10.1111/j.1751-9004.2012.00433.x
Hamilton, Maggie. (2009). What’s Happening to Our Girls: Too much, Too soon – How our kids are overstimulated, oversold and oversexed. Penguin.
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Hawkes, Gail, and Danielle Egan. (2008). Landscapes of Erotophobia: The Sexual(ized) Child in the Postmodern Anglophone West. Sexuality and Culture, 12: 193-203.
Levin, D. E. (2005). So sexy, so soon: The sexualization of childhood. In S. Olfman (Ed.), Childhood Lost: How American culture is failing our kids (pp. 137-153). Westport, CT: Praeger Press.
Levin, Diane E., and Jean Kilbourne. (2008). So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids. Ballantine.
Malson, H., E. Halliwell, et al. Post-feminist advertising laid bare: Young women’s talk about the sexually agentic woman of ‘midriff ‘ advertising. Feminism & Psychology 21(1): 74-99.
Melrose, M. (2014). The sexualization of girls and girlhood: causes, consequences and resistance. Sex Education, 14(1), 112-114.
Montemurro, B., Bartasavich, J., & Wintermute, L. (2015). Let’s (Not) Talk about Sex: The Gender of Sexual Discourse. Sexuality & Culture, 19(1), 139-156.
Olfman, Sharna. (ed.) (2008). Sexualization of Childhood. Praeger Press.
The Sexualization of Childhood.
Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys.
A Royal Juggernaut.
Girls Gone Grown-Up.
Somethings Happening Here.
So Sexy So Soon.
Still on the Auction Block.
Sexualization and Child Sexual Abuse.
The Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth.
Childified Women.
Prostitution and the Sexualization of Children.
Oppliger, Patrice A. (2008). Girls Gone Skank: The Sexualization of Girls in American Culture. Jefferson, North Carolina & London: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Papadopoulos, Linda. (2010). Sexualisation of Young People Review. London: UK Home Office.
Paul, Pamela. (2005). Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families. New York: Times Books/Henry Holt (Chapter Six).
Peter, J., and P. M. Valkenburg. (2007). Adolescents’ exposure to a sexualized media environment and their notions of women as sex objects. Sex Roles, 56(5-6): 381-395.
Reist, Melinda Tankard. (ed.). (2009). Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls. Melbourne: Spinifex Press.
Preface: The Right of Children to be Children – Noni Hazlehurst.
Introduction: The Pornification of Girlhood: We Haven’t Come a Long Way Baby – Melinda Tankard Reist.
What Are the Risks of Premature Sexualisation for Children? – Emma Rush.
The Seduction of Girls: The Human Cost – Maggie Hamilton.
Sex on the Street: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexual Harassment of Women – Lauren Rosewarne.
The Psychological and Developmental Impact of Sexualisation on Children – Louise Newman.
Good is the New Bad: Rethinking Sexual Freedom – Clive Hamilton.
The Faking It Project: What Research Tells Us about Magazines in Young Women’s Lives – Selena Ewing.
The Gaze that Dare Not Speak its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics – Abigail Bray.
Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitative Cultural Practices that Harm Children – Melissa Farley.
The Harmful Medicalisation of Sexualised Girls – Renate Klein.
Sexualised and Trivialised: Making Equality Impossible – Betty McLellan.
How Girlhood Was Trashed and What We Can Do to Get it Back: A Father’s View – Steve Biddulph.
Finding the Courage to Get Real – Tania Andrusiak.
One Woman’s Activism: Refusing to Be Silent – Julie Gale.
Renold, E., Ringrose, J., and Egan, R.D. (2015). Children, sexuality and sexualization. Springer. Palgrave Macmillan.
Third Baltic Sea Women’s Conference on Women and Democracy in Tallinn 13-14 February, 2003, Workshop: Pornophication of Public Space.
Includes;
The Mainstreaming of Pornography in Mass Culture / Anette Dina Sørensen.
Accessibility of Violent Pornography on the Internet / Ragnhild Bjørnebekk.
Girls’ Magazines and the Sexualization of Youth Culture / Ane Stø.
Setting Limits: Young Girls Campaigning Against Sexualization / Marte Brekke Michelet.
Thompson, K. (2010). Because looks can be deceiving: media alarm and the sexualisation of childhood – “do we know what we mean?” Journal of Gender Studies 19(4): 395-400.
Tsaliki, Liza. (2017). Children and the politics of sexuality: the sexualization of children debate revisited. Palgrave Macmillan.