Media Contributions to African American Girls' Focus on Beauty and Appearance: Exploring the Consequences of Sexual Objectification

By M. Gordon. 2008

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I'm No Jezebel; I am Young, Gifted, and Black: Identity, Sexuality, and Black Girls (2010, background): “African American adolescent girls who do not successfully negotiate the identity formation process are more vulnerable to risky behaviors (Stevens, 1997), especially if they believe they cannot conform to society’s “body ideal” (Gordon, 2008).”
Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females: A Review of Effects and Processes (2010, background): “On the one hand, a set of studies provides evidence that Black girls and women are just as vulnerable to effects of images represented in the media too (see, e.g., Borzekowski et al., 2000; Botta, 2000; Gordon, 2008).”
Sexualized Avatars Lead to Women’s Self-Objectification and Acceptance of Rape Myths (2015, background): “…imagery in traditional media (e.g., magazines and television) has been linked to self-objectification in a number of studies (e.g., Aubrey, 2006b; Gordon, 2008; Grabe & Hyde, 2009; Vandenbosch & Eggermont, 2012), but very few studies have examined this experimentally (e.g., Aubrey et al., 2009;…”
Measuring the Meaning of Black Media Stereotypes and Their Relationship to the Racial Identity, Black History Knowledge, and Racial Socialization of African American Youth (2014, methodology): “Previous research with adults and youth has examined the relationship between media images of Blacks and racial identity (Allen, 1998; Allen & Bielby, 1979; Allen & Thornton, 1992; Berry, 1998; Gerson, 1966; Gordon, 2008; Lee & Browne, 1981; Ward, 2004).”
Sexy Dolls, Sexy Grade-Schoolers? Media & Maternal Influences on Young Girls’ Self-Sexualization (2012, methodology): “For example, Hoffner (1996) found that among 7 to 12year-olds, most boys and approximately half of the girls reported a same-gender character as their favorite TV character, and girls were more likely to express the desire to emulate the behaviors of female than male characters.”
Female Self-Sexualization in MySpace.com Personal Profile Photographs (2012, background): “Gordon (2008) found a connection between more objectifying music videos and Black girls’ acceptance of objectifying attitudes.”
Sexual Objectification of Women: Advances to Theory and Research 1ψ7 (2011, background): “…in defining an individual's own self-worth as well as in defining the value of females in general among African American adolescent girls (Gordon, 2008) and to self-objectification, body shame, appearance anxiety, internalization of cultural standards of beauty, body dissatisfaction, and…”