Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls

Melinda Tankard Reist has edited a book, "Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls." This book: "confronts and addresses the sexualisation and objectification of girls and women. Bringing together some of the most informed critics of this harmful cultural practice, it calls corporations, the media and the sex industry to account for creating a toxic environment that harms girls' health and threatens their wellbeing."

Children today are exposed to sexual imagery from their earliest years, to sex as a product and our bodies as commodities. Getting Real gives the mindlessness of this cultural misdirection a good shake.
- Tim Costello, CEO, World Vision Australia

Getting Real unflinchingly tracks the abuse that, with the pervasive penetration or pornography, becomes normal culture. Girls increasingly live in a world pornography has made. This book shows what needs to be stopped and why.
- Catherine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.

I got a copy of this book and will try to start reading it soon. I'm hoping to share my thoughts about the book on my blog.

If you're interested in this topic, here are some more books to read:

• The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
• Reviving Orphelia
• Sex in Public: Women, Outdoor Advertising & Public Policy by Dr. Lauren R?
• What's Happening to Our Girls by Maggie Hamilton