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The Sexualization of Childhood
Sharna Olfman
ISBN:
0-275-99985-8
ISBN-13:
978-0-275-99985-8
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0275999858
224 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication:
11/30/2008
List Price:
$44.95
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UK Sterling Price: £31.95
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Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Psychology
»
Psychology (General)
Health/Medicine
»
Health/Medicine (General)
Series Title:
Childhood in America
Reviews:
"All of the chapters are clearly written and heavily referenced. A valuable addition to the 'Childhood in America' series, which Olfman edits...Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers."
—CHOICE
7/1/2009
"Although this volume is intended for nonacademic readers, it is worth the purchase price for the voluminous footnotes.
The authors are a diverse group who present ample evidence for their arguments. . . . I also read this as a mother and found it helpful as a launching pad for conversations I had been putting off."
—Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
July 2009
Description:
Only a generation or two ago, childhood in the United States was understood to be a unique and vulnerable stage of development; a time for play and protection from adult preoccupations and responsibilities. In recent decades however, we appear to have jettisoned these norms, and the lines that separate the lifestyles of even very young children from adults are blurring. As widely known experts on the team that created this book explain, children begin formal education now in preschool, dress like adults, listen to the same music, play the same video games, explore the same Internet sites, and watch explicit depictions of sex and violence on TV and in movies. What is the impact of immersing children in a sexualized world?
The Sexualization of Childhood
first explains the nature of healthy sexual development. It then describes the ways in which children are being sexualized, and the physical and psychological consequences. It then looks at the lower and lower age at which girls are experiencing puberty, that reduction being fueled by the pseudoestrogens in so many of our foods and products, as well as obesity. Finally, it examines what we can do legally, politically, and as caregivers to protect children from developmentally inappropriate sexual experiences.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
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
About the Editor and the Contributors
1
About the Author:
Sharna Olfman
is Series Editor for the Praeger series
Childhood in America
. A Clinical Psychologist and Full Professor of Developmental Psychology at Point Park University, she is also Founding Director of the annual Childhood and Society Symposium held at the university. Olfman is the author or editor of six previous Praeger books, including
All Work and No Play
(2003),
Childhood Lost
(2005),
No Child Left Different
, (2006), and
Bipolar Children
(2007).
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Spring 2009.pdf
Psychology Catalog 2008.pdf
Praeger Public Library Spring 2009.pdf
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