Daily Mail: Sociologists find huge rise in sexualizes pictures of women

Release Date: August 15, 2011 This content is archived.

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An article in England's Daily Mail reports on research conducted by UB sociologists Erin Hatton and Mary Nell Trautner that found that the portrayal of women in the popular media has become increasingly sexualized in the past four decades. Their research is being widely reported, with article also appearing in the Huffington Post and Chicago Sun-Times. The study also is being picked up in other international press outlets, with articles appearing in the French Tribune, as well as Verslas, a Greek news site, and Sante, a French health blog.

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