The risks and rights of sexualization: an appreciative commentary on Lerum and Dworkin's "bad girls rule".: An article from: The Journal of Sex Research
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Author(s)Ine Vanwesenbeeck
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group, LLC
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From the author: This commentary wholeheartedly supports the critical observations by Kari Lerum and Shari L. Dworkin in this issue of the Journal of Sex Research with regard to the 2007 Report of the APA (American Psychological Association) Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. The APA task force makes an overwhelmingly strong point for the dangers of the sexualization of women and girls and the self-objectification connected to it. However, their discussion of the evidence is noteworthy for being one-sided, generalizing, and negatively toned. Among the arguments presented in this commentary are notions about the rather diverse and often ambiguous nature of sexualized imagery and about the all too often ignored complexity of its presumed "effects." In addition, the issue of female sexual power and the case of sex workers are discussed. When sexualization is defined as only negative, both sex worker's rights and, more generally, women's rights to be sexual, get into a tight corner. The main contention is that sexualization is associated with risks, as well as with rights, and that any productive analysis will have to consider both.
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Title: The risks and rights of sexualization: an appreciative commentary on Lerum and Dworkin's "bad girls rule".
Author: Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Publication:The Journal of Sex Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Volume: 46 Issue: 4 Page: 268(3)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
From the author: This commentary wholeheartedly supports the critical observations by Kari Lerum and Shari L. Dworkin in this issue of the Journal of Sex Research with regard to the 2007 Report of the APA (American Psychological Association) Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. The APA task force makes an overwhelmingly strong point for the dangers of the sexualization of women and girls and the self-objectification connected to it. However, their discussion of the evidence is noteworthy for being one-sided, generalizing, and negatively toned. Among the arguments presented in this commentary are notions about the rather diverse and often ambiguous nature of sexualized imagery and about the all too often ignored complexity of its presumed "effects." In addition, the issue of female sexual power and the case of sex workers are discussed. When sexualization is defined as only negative, both sex worker's rights and, more generally, women's rights to be sexual, get into a tight corner. The main contention is that sexualization is associated with risks, as well as with rights, and that any productive analysis will have to consider both.
Citation Details
Title: The risks and rights of sexualization: an appreciative commentary on Lerum and Dworkin's "bad girls rule".
Author: Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Publication:The Journal of Sex Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2009
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Volume: 46 Issue: 4 Page: 268(3)
Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning
