The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It

By M. G. Durham. 2008

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. A. Slater
2. M. Tiggemann
3. Carol M. Liebler
4. Temple Northup
5. Lara Karaian
6. C. Greenleaf
7. Rachel M. Calogero
8. Janet S. Hyde

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Carol M. Liebler
2. Temple Northup
3. Lara Karaian
4. A. Slater
5. M. Tiggemann

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Carol M. Liebler
2. Temple Northup
3. Lara Karaian
4. A. Slater
5. M. Tiggemann
6. Rachel Florence Rodgers
7. Lenny R. Vartanian
8. Jasmine Fardouly

Citations in the corpus

• Lolita speaks: ‘Sexting,’ teenage girls and the law (2012, background): “1 Overwhelmingly, news media, mainstream books and popular culture represent teenage girls2 who sext as lacking in sexual agency, having fallen prey to the ‘pornification’ of a generation (Durham, 2008; Levine and Kilbourne, 2009; Scott and Sarracino, 2008).”
• NetTweens The Internet and Body Image Concerns in Preteenage Girls (2014, background): “It is as if the girls are in a great hurry to grow up, consistent with popular accounts, the so-called Lolita Effect (Durham, 2008).”
• The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful (2010, background): “Social comparison theory argues that individuals have an innate drive to compare themselves with others (Festinger, 1954). There are many motives an individual can have for comparing oneself to another, but among adolescent girls, self-evaluation and selfimprovement are most common (Martin & Kennedy”
• The FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at Scale (2024, unknown): “The word ‘young’ is skewed to co-occur with ‘women’, consistent with the problematic tendencies in English-speaking societies to infantilize women and over-indexing on womens’ youth [74, 75].”