Hilary Levey Friedman

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Dr. Hilary Levey Friedman is a Harvard sociologist and expert on beauty pageants, childhood and parenting, competitive afterschool activities, and education. She frequently writes on these topics and talks about them in the press.

Dr. Levey Friedman can intelligently comment on media stories about topics including afterschool activities, the American family, beauty pageants, childhood, competition, competitive sports, credentialism, dance competitions, reality television, scholastic chess, working children, and youth sports injuries.

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From the Playing to Win Blog

  • Unleashing Momsters: It’s a Small World of Pageant Reality (originally published on Huffington Post Celebrity)
  • Shrinking and Pinking: Sex, Sports, and Sociology
  • More Talking, and Writing, about Competition (while being a mom)!
  • Pint-Sized Phenoms: Creating and Destroying While Setting Records
  • Writing, Writing, Writing, and Writing (Talking, too) about Competition

Recently Published Articles

"Unleashing Momsters: It's a Small World of Pageant Reality." May 20, 2013. The Huffington Post

"Youth Soccer Shouldn't Be A Blood Sport." May 10, 2013. Cognoscenti.

"Competitions Within Competitions: America's insatiable hunger." May 10, 2013. PsychologyToday.com.

Why 'Bet on Your Baby' is Bad for the Babies." April 24, 2013. Kveller.

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  • More from Hill on Irish pageants. US child beauty pageant 'not telling parents to tan their kids' http://t.co/njQwgmrPb0 via @irishexaminer about 1 day ago
  • And now more Irish child pageant drama. 'Beauty pageants do not sexualise children' says contest organiser http://t.co/ikG5pcpC3b about 1 day ago
  • Staying True to Merida: Why This Fight Matters http://t.co/60nWbv3y0r via @HuffPostParents about 1 day ago
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