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Are You Sexy, Flirty, Or A Slut? Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites

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In February 2010 The UK Home Office released a high-profile report, ‘The Sexualisation of Young People’. The UK report came rather late in the international context, following on from earlier reports, including the American Psychological Association Taskforce report on the sexualization of girls (APA, 2007), and the Australian government-led research on the sexualization of children, which generated widespread debate over ‘corporate paedophilia’ (Rush and La Nauze, 2006).

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  • Young People
  • Sexual Identity
  • Social Networking Site
  • Teen Girl
  • Moral Panic

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Ringrose, J. (2011). Are You Sexy, Flirty, Or A Slut? Exploring ‘Sexualization’ and How Teen Girls Perform/Negotiate Digital Sexual Identity on Social Networking Sites. In: Gill, R., Scharff, C. (eds) New Femininities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294523_7

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