Debates about little girls' loss of innocence, and the sexualization of girls have become an integral part of media in contemporary culture. Fashion advertising representing young girls and certain types of clothes are specifically prone to generate debates about sexualization. This article looks at the sexualization argument through two sets of fashion editorials, one in a December–January 2011 issue of French Vogue, and another in the December–January 1978 issue of the same magazine. The article exposes the problem of sexualization discourse that relates images to lived experiences of girls even though fashion advertising rarely, if ever, is interested in depicting reality. Sexualization is revealed to be a value statement—the Other of innocence which is set up as the norm. Furthermore, fashion photography is shown to be intertextual; images refer to other fashion photographs. In looking at these issues this article opens up space for discussing the visual and sartorial history of the sexual girl.
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Annamari Vänskä
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Elspeth Mitchell
political issues of queerness and the problem of representation as well, particularly in relation to the intersection of gender, sexuality, and adolescence. In their respective chapters, Mary Harrod and Fiona Handyside both address French cinema's ability to
Marie Puysségur
Introduction British filmmaker Andrea Arnold and her French counterpart, Céline Sciamma, often come together in their work. Like Arnold's American Honey ( 2016 ) and Sciamma's La Naissance des Pieuvres (Water lilies) ( 2007 ) before them, Bande
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2020
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In Pursuit of Masculinity
On Aging Bodies, Migration and Youthful Masculinities
Usman Mahar
proof to himself that he was still “twenty-five,” but it was also an aggrandizing symbolic statement—a ritualistic display of youth—for all those who thought otherwise. According to Rufi, in 1985 the French government introduced a program to give
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Masculinity, Sex, and Dicks
New Understandings of the Phallus
Andrea Waling and Jennifer Power
of ejaculation, and the phallus within literary texts and filmic representations. The issue begins with Michael Valinsky, who presents a politically engaged textual analysis of the work of controversial French writer Guillaume Dustan. Dustan enraged
In Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities
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- 01 Mar 2022
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Hope Chest
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Catriona McAra
in Miranda July’s film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) , when Sylvie, crucially on the verge of adolescence, explains that her “hope chest or trousseau in French” represents her “dowry” to her future husband and daughter, of whose social and
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Growing Up Married
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Zahra Khosroshahi
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Daniel Lewis
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Sami Schalk
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In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Heather Fitzsimmons Frey
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In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2016
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