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This book contains far more evidence and insight into the lives of young girls than I could have ever imagined [...]  I urge you to read it, digest it and then use all of your strength to stop this before our children get hurt. 

Innocence should never be sold or abused.

Source: Realize Beauty blog
Reviewer: Amanda Foxon-Hill

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Getting Real is frightening, confrontational and above all, a call to arms.

...Does Getting Real provide a light at the end of the tunnel? Are there any immediately identifiable solutions to the issues described? Fortunately, there are.

...a must read for anyone that cares about the future of our children, particularly those who have the power to make a difference...all adults.

Source: Eating Disorders Victoria
Reviewer: Dr Naomi Crafti, Education Officer

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... an incredibly confronting but important book ... It's a terribly bleak but necessary look at how we are eroding what was once the sacred space of childhood with a bombardment of appalling imagery and sexually suggestive ideas aimed at children, particularly at girls.

Source: MamaMia blog
Reviewer: Mia Freedman

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Table of Contents:

Preface: The Right of Children to be Children – Noni Hazlehurst

Introduction: The Pornification of Girlhood: We Haven’t Come a Long Way Baby – Melinda Tankard Reist

What Are the Risks of Premature Sexualisation for Children? – Emma Rush

The Seduction of Girls: The Human Cost – Maggie Hamilton

Sex on the Street: Outdoor Advertising and the Sexual Harassment of Women – Lauren Rosewarne

The Psychological and Developmental Impact of Sexualisation on Children – Louise Newman

Good is the New Bad: Rethinking Sexual Freedom – Clive Hamilton

The Faking It Project:  What Research Tells Us about Magazines in Young Women’s Lives – Selena Ewing

The Gaze that Dare Not Speak its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics – Abigail Bray

Media Glamourising of Prostitution and Other Sexually Exploitative Cultural Practices that Harm Children – Melissa Farley

The Harmful Medicalisation of Sexualised Girls – Renate Klein

Sexualised and Trivialised: Making Equality Impossible – Betty McLellan

How Girlhood Was Trashed and What We Can Do to Get it Back: A Father’s View – Steve Biddulph

Finding the Courage to Get Real – Tania Andrusiak

One Woman’s Activism: Refusing to Be Silent – Julie Gale