Objectification: Body Image and Young Children
Body Image Issues: 6-Year-Old Girl Worries She Is Fat – ABC News. In the article linked above, a six-year-old girl talks about needing to lose weight and a group of … Continue reading
Girls are Flirty and Boys are Proud? Objectification, Anyone?
My middle school daughter was shopping today and she came home with these photos from an in-store advertising campaign. Notice the difference between the ads directed at girls versus those … Continue reading
Objectification vs Mutuality: From Bristol Palin to Harry Potter
In my writing about sexualized media and its focus on representing females as objects rather than agents, I have often referred to the need for a more complex depiction of … Continue reading
Exploring Objectification
In a Facebook conversation about my last post, Renee of Hardy Girls Healthy Women brought up the idea proposed by Dr. Sharon Lamb that enjoying being the object of someone’s … Continue reading
Dr. Jennifer W. Shewmaker 