The Sexualization of Childhood (Childhood in America) - Hardcover

Olfman, Sharna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275999858 ISBN 13: 9780275999858

Verlag: Praeger, 2008

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Book by Olfman Sharna

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"The volume fully brings to one place the best and worst examples of the sexualization of children, and many chapters review up-to-date research." - PsycCRITIQUES "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 "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

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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.

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• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0275999858
• ISBN 13: 9780275999858
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224