Durham, Meenakshi Gigi.

The Lolita effect : the media sexualization of young girls and what we can do about it / M. Gigi Durham. - Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2008. - 286 p. ; 24 cm.

Evaluates media messages that promote the early maturation and sexualization of pre-adolescent girls, revealing the detrimental and restrictive definitions of sexuality in media while counseling parents on how to raise sexually healthy young women.

9781590200636 1590200632


Self-perception in adolescence.
Mass media and girls--United States.
Girls in popular culture--United States.
Sex in mass media.

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