Dear colleagues

You may be interested in our special themed issue of Media International Australia, on Children, Young People, Sexuality and the Media (No 135, May 2010). Themed contributions include:

Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby
Introduction: Children, young people, sexuality and the media
    
Claire Charles
Raunch culture goes to school? Young women, normative femininities and elite education
    
Steven Angelides
Hot for teacher: The cultural erotics and anxieties of adolescent sexuality
    
Kate MacNeill
When subject becomes object: Nakedness, art and the public sphere
    
Robbie Duschinsky
Feminism, sexualisation and social status
    
Joanne Faulkner
The innocence fetish: The commodification and sexualisation of children in the media and popular culture
    
Mary Lou Rasmussen
Revisiting moral panics in sexuality education
    
Alan McKee
Everything is child abuse
    
Catharine Lumby and Kath Albury
Too much? Too young? The sexualisation of children debate in Australia

A full list of abstracts, and information on subscriptions, and purchasing individual issue, is available here: http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/mia/issues/mia135.html

Cheers, Kath Albury