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Main : non-fiction, human rights, sexual abuse, young women
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Write a review. 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 blogReviewer: Amanda Foxon-Hill 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 VictoriaReviewer: Dr Naomi Crafti, Education Officer ... 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 blogReviewer: Mia Freedman
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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
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