I shall contend that avowedly feminist media and policy discussions of “sexualization” in the
UK have risked inadvertently problematizing not sexism but propriety. As a result, these …

'Sexualisation'has been dismissed by some as no more than yet another moral panic about
youth and sex. However, it is striking that the term appears to have helped galvanise feminist …

Feminist media discourses on 'sexualisation'have set out a critique of sexist cultural forms in
contemporary society, using the figure of the 'girl'to show how women are socialised in …

In this article, we deconstruct the epistemological framework underlying recent discussions
on the sexualization of girls. Conducting a close textual analysis of scholarly and activist …

In the US, psychological researchers have been at the forefront of establishing and
contributing to a public discourse on sexualization that holds responsible the media and …

For the past five years in the Anglophone West, narratives of the sexual child have been
dominated by anxieties about sexualization (of girls), sexting (by both girls and boys) and …

This thinkpiece arises from personal reflection on researching 'sexualisation', on the
individuals and issues encountered and on elements that were unspoken or more rarely …

Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric
that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and …

One of the reasons why it is 'hard to explain'the lack of attention to boys in discourses in
sexualisation is that approached head-on, it appears that the focus on girls has no logic and …

Limits of'Sex'explores the limits of constructionism as a way of theorising gender relations.
The key question she raises is: to what extent does the argument that gender is culturally …