Abstract Objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) provides a framework for
understanding how cultural pressure on women's appearance (ie, sexual objectification) …

proposed objectification theory as an integrative framework for understanding how women's
socialization and experiences of sexual objectification are translated into mental health …

Given the heightened attention to visual impression management on social media websites,
previous research has demonstrated an association between Facebook use and objectified …

CONTEXT: Curriculum-based sexuality and HIV education is a mainstay of interventions to
prevent STIs, HIV and unintended pregnancy among young people. Evidence links …

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of
the way we regulate children's access to certain knowledge and explores how this …

This chapter focuses on sexuality education through the window of the federally funded
AOUM movement. The sexual subjectivity of young women remains our focus in this …

In this chapter, we review an impressive body of research conducted during the past 20
years on sexual objectification, self-objectification, and their attendant consequences. We …

Scientific research has made major contributions to adolescent health by providing insights
into factors that influence it and by defining ways to improve it. However, US adolescent …

'If you're going to talk about women in the 21st century, you MUST read Peggy Orenstein's
Girls & Sex.'-CAITLIN MORAN, author of How to Be a Woman* TIME Top 10 non-fiction …

In this commentary, I offer a response to Lamb & Peterson (2011). I base these comments on
the feminist scholarship on adolescent girls' healthy sexuality that Lamb (2010a) critiqued in …