January 12, 2001
Listening to What Girls Have to Say
To the Editor:
I appreciated Joan Jacobs Brumberg's thoughtful and thought-provoking essay, "When Girls Talk: What It Reveals About Them and Us" (The Review, November 24), but I was troubled by the accompanying artwork: back views of a nearly naked preteen girl. Though ostensibly the art illustrates the dilemma of body image discussed by many of the books reviewed, it also gratuitously sexualizes a young girl. ... Being faced with such sexualized images at every turn is part of what
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