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Vares, Tiina; Jackson, Sue – Gender and Education, 2015
The focus on, and concern about, young girls and preteens or "tweens" relates to the "sexualisation" of girlhood and the notion that girls are "growing up too fast" and becoming "too sexy too soon". In both popular and academic accounts, "tween" magazines and the increasingly "sexualised"…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Females, Femininity, Gender Issues