{"id":31984,"date":"2011-01-08T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T15:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=31984"},"modified":"2017-09-17T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T05:54:12","slug":"adultification-and-sexualization-of-girls-in-french-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/08\/adultification-and-sexualization-of-girls-in-french-vogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Adultification & Sexualization of Girls in French Vogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight readers — Christine B., Hermes<\/a>,\u00a0Yvette, Hope H., Tyler D., Pris S., John G., and Dmitrity T.M. — alerted us to a photo spread in the December issue of French Vogue<\/a>. The series of photographs is another piece of evidence of the adultification of young girls, an adultification that looks suspiciously like child porn, given the sexualization of adult women<\/a>. \u00a0New York Magazine<\/em><\/a> reports that the girls are 6 years old. \u00a0Don’t miss the lipstick, high heels, and disinterested pouts.<\/p>\n

The thing is: the adultification\/sexualization of young girls is paralleled by a infantilization of adult women. \u00a0This adds up to a conflation of women and children which serves to uphold prejudice against adult women and the exploitation of girls.<\/p>\n

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\nMore at Gawker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on the infantilization of adult women, see our posts on lady spanking<\/a>, Glee<\/a>, this collection of examples<\/a>, a vintage example<\/a>, and the Halloween edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more on the adultification\/sexualization of young girls, see our posts on\u00a0sexually suggestive teen brands<\/a>,\u00a0adultifying children of color<\/a>, \u201ctrucker girl\u201d\u00a0baby booties<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cfuture trophy wife\u201d kids\u2019 tee<\/a>, House of Dere\u00f3n\u2019s\u00a0girls\u2019 collection<\/a>, \u201cis modesty making a comeback?<\/a>\u201c, more\u00a0sexualized clothes and toys<\/a>,\u00a0sexist kids\u2019 tees<\/a>, a\u00a0trifecta of sexualizing girls<\/a>, a zebra-striped\u00a0string bikini for infants<\/a>, a\u00a0nipple tassle t-shirt<\/a>, even more\u00a0icky kids\u2019 t-shirts<\/a>, \u201care you tighter than a 5th grader?<\/a>\u201d t-shirt, the totally gross \u201cI\u2019m tight like spandex<\/a>\u201d girls\u2019 t-shirt, a\u00a0Halloween costume post<\/a>, and\u00a0girls in the World of Dance tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, yes, it happens to boys too. \u00a0For examples of the sexualization of young boys, see our posts on\u00a0Lil\u2019 Wayne\u2019s virginity loss<\/a>, the depiction of\u00a0a 13-year-old boy having a relationship with his teacher<\/a>, the sexy marketing of both\u00a0Jaden Smith<\/a> and\u00a0Justin Bieber<\/a>, with a follow up\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight readers — Christine B., Hermes,\u00a0Yvette, Hope H., Tyler D., Pris S., John G., and Dmitrity T.M. — alerted us to a photo spread in the December issue of French Vogue. The series of photographs is another piece of evidence of the adultification of young girls, an adultification that looks suspiciously like child porn, given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,225,55,2099,1776,120],"class_list":["post-31984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-nation-france","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31984"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71342,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31984\/revisions\/71342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}