'When Difference Gets in the Way': Young People, Whiteness and Sexualisation.
Scholars of young people and sexualisation have noted an omission of studies that attend to race and whiteness. In the main, a white-Anglo middle-class child is placed at the centre of media, policy and academic debates about the effects, production and consumption of sexualised media. In light of t...
| Published in: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 21; no. 2; pp. 593 - 613 |
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