BU Now » role models http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Jacko & Fawcett: Role Models? http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/06/26/jacko-fawcett-role-models/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/06/26/jacko-fawcett-role-models/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:32:32 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=1778 The deaths of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett revive discussion of youth role models.  College of Communication Professor Patrice Oppliger has written books on adolescent role models — “Wrestling and Hypermasculinity” and “Girls Gone Skank: The Sexualization of Girls in American Culture” — and can discuss this subject.

Contact Patrice Oppliger, 617-353-3482, oppliger@bu.edu

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