Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, explored the meaning and evolution of the action heroine: the combination of heroic masculine traits with sexualized physical female traits that create a heroin with ambiguous gender traits and a combination of aggression, sex and violence (see Angelina Jolie in "Salt").
New NIH-funded study gauges cognitive effects of female objectification in video games as measured by Likelihood to Sexually Harass (LSH) scale and finds that even a half-hour of viewing and interacting can encourage seeing women as objects and prime sexually inappropriate social behavior over the short-term (non pay-wall download).
Promundo's Project H teaches young men and boys a "gender transformative" approach to masculinity, relations with women, and safer sex abroad. Their extensive Toolkit contains all the pieces to incorporate this approach and is a definitive statement on gender norms' interaction with sexuality for young people (153pg).
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