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Shifting the objectifying gaze: Focusing on women's personality disrupts sexual objectification
By Marisa Ragonese I had a baby three summers ago, and she’s been hanging around me a lot ever since. One of the best parts about this...
Sep 14, 2020
Why do people objectify women’s bodies?
By Marisa Ragonese Illustration by Neil Webb I had a baby three summers ago, and she’s been hanging around me a lot ever since....
Jun 6, 2019
Self-objectification discourages activism: "Objects don't object"
By Christin Bowman *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...
May 8, 2019
Sexualization in social media profile pictures
By Marisa Ragonese *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...
Mar 20, 2019
Sexual objectification in romantic relationships is related to lower relationship satisfaction
By Steph Anderson *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...
Mar 7, 2019
Dancing and body image: Comparing belly dancers, hip hop dancers and exotic dancers
By Christin Bowman *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...
Feb 28, 2019
Too much Facebook: Social media use and negative body image for girls
by Christin Bowman *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled...
Feb 14, 2019
Compliments can hurt: Appearance-related comments increase girls' self-objectification
by Kim Nguyen *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled organization...
Jan 24, 2019
Exercise motivations shape young women's self-objectificatioin
by Steph Anderson I am not a runner – or at least I wasn’t. I grew up hating running for all of the obvious reasons: panting, chafing,...
Jan 17, 2019
Sexual objectification disrupts women's cognitive performance
by Christin Bowman *From the SPARK Research! Blog Archive: This blog was originally written for SPARK, a girl-fueled...
Nov 16, 2018
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