Research
Benefits of Dance for Children
- Thinking with the Dancing Brain: Embodying Neuroscience, book by Sandra C. Minton and Rima Faber
- Creative Dance for All Ages, book by Anne Green Gilbert
- Brain-Compatible Dance Education, book by Anne Green Gilbert
- Teaching Movement and Dance, book by Phyllis S. Weikert
- Partnering Dance & Education, book by Judith Hanna
- Dancing to Learn: the Brain Cognition, Emotion and Movement by Dr. Judith Hanna
- Why dance is just as important as math in school by Sir Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
Sexualization of Children
- American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls
- Update on the APA report 2019
- So Sexy, So Soon, book by Dr. Diane E. Levine
- NY Times Bestseller List Book: Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein Hardcover – March 29, 2016
- Contemporary Girlhood: Maternal Reports on Sexualized Behaviour and Appearance Concern in 4-10 Year-Old Girls
- Popular Culture and the Male Body: A New Challenge
- The Impact of Media Exposure on Males’ Body Image
- The Effects of Hyper Sexualization of Young Girls – Geena Davis, Academy Award Winning Actor & Founder of Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
- Not An Object: On Sexualization and Exploitation of Women and Girls January 2019 Unicef
- Sexualized Girls Seen as Less Intelligent
- Thigh Gap Surfaces as Teenage Girls New Image Obsession (Good Morning America)
- Too Sexy Too Soon? Super Sexualized Marketing and Teens (Nightline)
Sexualization of Children in Dance
- The Shift in Children’s Dance: From a Culture of Innocence to a Battlefield of Hypersexualization
- Social Media fast among pre-teen and teen dancers
- High time to enhance dancer welfare: a call to action to improve safeguarding and abuse prevention in dance
- Beneath the Surface of Hypersexualized Dance in Children (View Webpage or Download PDF Print Version) – By Anne Redelfs, MD
- ABC Report: Girls Being Sexualized in Dance
- NDEO Research Journal 1.31.19 – Sexualization of Prepubescent Girls in Dance Competition: Innocent Fun or ‘Sexploitation’?
- Harmful or Healthy Dance: What do the Experts say? by DA:NCE
- Healthy or Harmful: National Experts Talk About Children’s Dance (DA:NCE Powerpoint connects hypersexualization in children’s dance to paedophilia) by DA:NCE
- The Sexualization of Girls in Dance Competitions, Elizabeth Gough Schultz
Pornography + A Pornified Culture
- Growing Up in a Pornified Culture – Dr. Gail Dines
- Pornography: The Public Health Crisis of the Digital Age
- Pornography Harms Children – Dr. Sharon Cooper
- Healthy or Harmful Dance: What do the Experts Say about Hypersexualization? by Hannah McGuire of NCOSE
Trauma
- What the World Needs Now!– Healing Trauma in Ourselves and Our Children by Dr. Anne Redelfs, David Johnson, and Deborah Chelette-Wilson