Exploiting Childhood (eBook, ePUB)

How Fast Food, Material Obsession and Porn Culture are Creating New Forms of Child Abuse
Redaktion: Wild, Jim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Children deserve to live a life that is safe from exploitation and harm, but are we failing in our duty to protect them?

Childhood today is big business - it is impossible for any child growing up to avoid pervasive and intense marketing from companies. Whether it be for fatty foods resulting in childhood obesity, expensive franchised toys which encourage tension within families and stigma among friends, or 'pornified' role models who pervert children's ideas of sexuality, research clearly shows that commercial pressures are having a direct impact on children's psychological development and health. This book draws together a series of hard-hitting articles contributed by key thinkers on child welfare and child psychology including Oliver James, Susie Orbach and Gail Dines. Together they identify new and emerging forms of child exploitation, and editor Jim Wild constructs a powerful argument for why current child protection procedures designed to protect children from abuse are no longer adequate.

Outspoken and challenging, this book invites us to consider our responsibility for preventing the harm children are experiencing, and is required reading for anyone concerned with the welfare of children.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857007421
• Artikelnr.: 39936500

Autorenporträt

Edited by Jim Wild

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. Jim Wild
The Centre for Active & Ethical Learning
UK. Section I: Commercial Exploitation. 2. Introducing Selfish Capitalism. Oliver James
Psychologist and Author
UK. 3. Arguments
Bullies and Feeling Poor: How Consumer Culture Affects Children's Relationships. Professor Agnes Nairn
EM-Lyon Business School
France. 4. Child Obesity and the Junk Food Marketeers. Tim Lobstein
Curtin University
Australia. 5. The Science of Violent Entertainment. Dr. Wayne Warburton
Macquarie University
Australia. 6. Changing Childhoods: Nature Deficit. James Hawes
counsellor and psychotherapist
UK. 7. The Myth of Choice for Children and Parents: Why We Deny the Harm Being Caused to Our Children. Professor Renata Salecl
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia. Section II: Sexual Exploitation. 8. The Commercialisation of Girls' Bodies. Susie Orbach
psychotherapist
psychoanalyst and writer
UK. 9. Grooming Our Girls: Hypersexualisation of the Culture as Child Sexual Abuse. Gail Dines
feminist anti-pornography activist
author and professor
Wheelock College
Massachusetts
USA. 9. The Internet: A Global Market for Child Sexual Abuse. Sharon Girling OBE
UK. 10. Sex
Sexuality and Child Sexual Abuse. Professor Liz Kelly CBE
London Metropolitan University
UK. 11. Children
Childhood and Sexualized Popular Culture. Dr Maddy Coy. Section III: Fighting Back Against Commercial and Sexual Exploitation. 12. Helping Children to Stand Up to Society - Critical Challenges and Culture Jamming. Professor Stephen D. Brookfield
University of St. Thomas
Minneapolis
USA. 13. Still Waters in a Storm: The Power of Collective Learning. Stephen Haff
Still Waters in a Storm
New York
USA. 14: Riots
Rebellion and Finding New Utopias. Adam Barnard
Nottingham Trent University
UK. 15. Conclusion: A New Category of Child Abuse. Jim Wild.