Commentary: So Sexy So Soon
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by Jean Kilbourne, WCW senior scholar
From the Spring/Summer 2009 Research & Action Report
Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D., senior scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Women, is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her newest book, So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, co-authored with Diane E. Levin, was published in 2008. Her book, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, won the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2000. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes, and Calling the Shots.
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Update on Afterschool Matters
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In July, 2008 the Robert Bowne Foundation transferred the Afterschool
Matters (ASM) initiative to the National Institute on Out-of-School
Time (NIOST)
at the Wellesley Centers for Women. The four components of this
comprehensive initiative are: (1) the Practitioner Fellowship Program,
which provides an inquiry-based year-long research and writing
professional development experience for out-of-school-time
practitioners; (2) the Afterschool Matters journal, which disseminates
findings and experiences of the Practitioner Fellows and other relevant
research from the out-of-school-time field; (3) the Edmund A. Stanley,
Jr. Research Grantee program to foster high-quality, cutting-edge
research that has lasting impact on the field; and (4) the Research
Roundtables, periodic forums for connecting research and practice.
NIOST’s goals in acquiring the ASM initiative include generating
additional funding support to enable the national expansion of the
initiative, and to ensure the sustainability of ASM into the future.
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Q&A with Susan McGee Bailey
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Susan McGee Bailey, Ph.D. has served as executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) since 1985. She was the principal author of the widely cited 1992 AAUW report, How Schools Shortchange Girls.
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Human Rights Frameworks Integral to WCW Global Work
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Research & Action Report Spring/Summer 2009
 Rangita
de Silva-de Alwis, LL.M., S.J.D., director of International Human Rights Policy
Programs at the Wellesley Centers for Women, reflects on ways the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights informs the Centers’ newest international work.
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