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Young People, Sex and the Media

The Facts of Life?

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  • © 2004

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  1. David Buckingham
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  2. Sara Bragg
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 1-16

  3. Talking Dirty — Research Methods

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 17-42

  4. Living and Learning

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 43-64

  5. Boy Meets Boy Meets Girl Meets Girl — Gender, Sexuality and Performance

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 65-90

  6. Bodies on Display — Pin-ups, Porn and Pop Stars

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 91-126

  7. Dirty Laundry — Private Lives, Public Confessions

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 127-154

  8. Show and Tell — Learning from Television Drama

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 155-184

  9. Family Viewing — Embarrassment, Education and Erotics

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 185-206

  10. Governing the Living Room — from Morality to Ethics

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 207-235

  11. Conclusion

    • David Buckingham, Sara Bragg
    Pages 236-251

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 252-261
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About this book

Are children today growing up too soon? How do they - and their parents - feel about media portrayals of sex and personal relationships? Are the media a corrupting influence, or a potentially positive and useful resource for young people? Drawing on an extensive research project, which investigated children's interpretations of sexual content in films, TV and print media, this book considers how young people (aged 9-17) use such material to understand their experiences and build their identities, and how they and their parents respond to public concerns about these issues. The book offers a clearly written and entertaining insight into children's and parents' perspectives on these difficult issues - perspectives that are often ignored or trivialised in public debate.

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"Hodges's book thoughtfully challenges the monolithic view of chivalry which most or all readers have brought to the Morte. Readers will gain useful insights from his comments. Hodges's regular return to the question of the role(s) of women in chivalric communities is likewise well conceived, and his challenges to such acknowledged authorities on the issue as Dorsey Armstrong and Geraldine Heng are stimulating." - D. Thomas Hanks Jr., Journal of English and Germanic Philology

About the authors

Author David Buckingham: David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, UK, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. His previous books include Children Talking Television (1993), Moving Images (1996), The Making of Citizens (2000), After the Death of Childhood (2000) and Media Education (2003).

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