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2007
MGA
Entertainment to Roll Out America’s Next Top Model Dolls
(Worldscreen, 2/19/08)
Playboy
is being marketed to pre-teens like Barbie or Bratz
(TES, 2/15/08)
'CosmoGirl's'
Pot Calls the Kettle Black
(News Busters, 2/7/08)
Generation Diva: Pampering could give little girls the wrong
attitude (Arizona Republic,
1/15/08)
Would
Hannah Montana wear it? (Boston
Globe, 1/10/08)
Barbie's off boozin' with the
Bratz Pack (Yourhub.com,
12/16/07)
Bratz Media Empire Grows (Video Business, 12/5/07)
Teens stress most over body
image (The Sunshine Coast Daily, 12/4/07)
Taking the Axe to Unilever's
hypocrisy (Toronto Star, 11/28/07)
Dove viral draws heat from
critics (Advertising Age, 11/26/07)
Are young girls dressing
too revealingly? (Good Morning America, 10/27/07)
Unilever shuns
stereotypes of women (unless talking to men) (New York
Times, 10/15/07)
CCFC accuses Unilever of ad
hypocrisy (LA Times, 10/10/07)
Starvation diets
of schoolgirls striving for supermodel size (Daily Mail,
7/24/07)
Body spray ads
amuse, but do they offend, too? (Sacramento Bee,
11/6/07)
A company's ugly
contradiction (Boston Globe, 11/5/07)
Lolita's Closet:
Unbearably trampy back-to-school clothes
(Salt Lake Tribune, 8/6/07)
More than a doll, baby
(Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/2/07)
Too Sexy, Too Soon (Parents.com,
8/01/07)
Are Bratz Dolls Too Sexy?
(MSNBC, 4/11/07)
Marketing what? To whom?
(Houston Chronicle, 3/21/07)
Trash the plastic
slappers (Bratz) (Courier Mail, 3/20/07)
Parents push to boot Bratz
books from Scholastic fairs (CanWest, 2/28/07)
Message and the
Media: Our girls deserve better (San Francisco
Chronicle, 2/26/07)
As Pop Culture Targets
Ever Younger Girls, Psychologists Worry About a
Premature Focus on Sex and Appearance (Washington
Post, 2/20/07)
Why are we
dressing our daughters like this? (McLeans, 1/07)
Cashing in on the tween
dream (The Australian Age, 1/6/07)
2006
Middle
School Girls Gone Wild
(New York Times, 12/29/06)
What's Wrong With
Cinderella? (New York Times, 12/26/06)
‘Tweens‘
becoming the new teens
(Associated Press,
11/25/06)
Psychologists push
back against market forces and products that sexualize
young girls (APA Monitor, September 2006)
No
Escaping Sexualization of Young Girls (LA Times,
8/25/06)
Barbie Is the Least of
My Problems, as a Mom (NPR.org, 8/1/06)
Tweens and Media: What's Too
Adult? (NPR.org, 8/1/06)
Sexy styles
beckon little girls (Denver Post, 6/24/06)
Have the heirs of Barbie
hit limit for risqué dolls? (5/25/06)
The Shrinking
Childhood (Detroit Free Press, 5/13/06)
As Pop Music Seeks New
Sales, the Pussycat Dolls Head to Toyland
(New
York Times, 4/17/06)
Sexy
media a siren call to promiscuity? (Reuters,
4/04/06)
Merchants of filth have
worthy foe (NY Daily News, 4/3/06)
Backside of free
speech (Boston Globe, 3/27/06)
Young Adult Fiction:
Wild Things (New York Times Book Review, 3/12/06)
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