Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Meenakshi Gigi Durham is the author of the new book The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It . She is associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Iowa, where she teaches classes on issues of gender and sexuality in the media and youth cultures.

Lolita and the Sexualization of Childhood

Saturday, July 12th, 2008 - by Meenakshi Gigi Durham

The media's relentless pimping of young girls is profitable — and destructive.

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