In this post, Fiona MacCallum wonders whether the Disney Princess brand is having a detrimental effect on young girls. You don’t have to be the parent of a young girl…
Category: sexualisation
Beauty Norms, Children and the Ethics of Early Influence
In this post, our new Research Network Administrator, Ruth Wareham, discusses how her research interests in the philosophy of education fit with the issues being considered as part of the…
Sporting heroes and Tarzans
Johnny Weissmuller was famous, both as an Olympic swimmer and as Tarzan. He won five Olympic gold medals in swimming between 1924 and 1928, and played Tarzan in twelve films…
The Demandingness of Youth for Women: Why Women Are Most ‘Desirable’ at 18 and Men at 50
In a recent study, researchers Bruch and Newman (2018: 1-6) investigated the ‘desirability’ of both male and female online dating users. Bruch and Newman determined, through analysing over 200,000 messages…