{"id":1473,"date":"2012-06-01T17:03:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T22:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1473"},"modified":"2012-06-05T09:28:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:28:41","slug":"sexualization-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2012\/06\/01\/sexualization-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexualization of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing some last minute planning for my Sociology of Gender course this summer, and happened upon a <a href=\"http:\/\/tlc.howstuffworks.com\/tv\/toddlers-tiaras\">Toddlers and Tiaras<\/a> episode (which I know is old news for most people!) but I had never actually watched it. Very interesting. And would be great for discussion in the classroom on the sexualization of children. <\/p>\n<p>I started poking around <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/\">Soc Images<\/a> for some more resources and found so many helpful posts I had to share: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/09\/24256\/\">on 7 years doing &#8220;All The Single Ladies&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/27\/sexualization-of-girls-a-trifecta\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/29\/the-miley-cyrus-scandal\/\">girls modeling<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/27\/sexualization-of-girls-a-trifecta\/\">sexualized toys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/19\/push-up-bikini-tops-at-abercrombie-kids\/\">push-up swimsuits for young girls<\/a>, and more <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/08\/adultification-and-sexualization-of-girls-in-french-vogue\/\">sexualized modeling, <\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/10\/toddlers-tiaras-and-cone-bras\/\">a two year old in a Madonna cone bra.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip from Toddlers and Tiaras:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XxHHBUgDGq4\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a whole episode: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NgWMrc-u6Fo\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clip many of you have probably seen of 7 year olds doing Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;All the Single Ladies&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ir8BO4-7DkM\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And another group of 7 year olds doing &#8220;My Boyfriend&#8217;s Back&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zXCDv0IorMQ\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, finally, here&#8217;s the cone bra:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-zPj39PLYtU\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing some last minute planning for my Sociology of Gender course this summer, and happened upon a Toddlers and Tiaras episode (which I know is old news for most people!) but I had never actually watched it. Very interesting. And would be great for discussion in the classroom on the sexualization of children. I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403,308],"tags":[35,55],"class_list":["post-1473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","category-video","tag-children","tag-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}