Citations:pinkification

Noun: "the act or process of being made pink or being saturated with pink"

 * 1989, Atlantis, Volume 15, page 182:
 * Susan Cole is of the view that the "pinkification" of girls, the imposition of fashion which leaves women easy prey, and the reduction of women to "tits and ass" to make them more like a "woman," will have to be eliminated before women will find equality in the world.
 * 1998, Toby Miller & Alec McHoul, Popular Culture and Everyday Life, SAGE Publications (1998), ISBN 9780761952121, page 45:
 * The same thing happened in over half the States of the Union (others required that it be coloured pink to differentiate it from butter - though butter was also artificially coloured). When compulsory pinkification was declared unconstitutional, governments taxed the new invention at a higher rate when coloured yellow!
 * 2009, Jon Henley, "The power of pink", The Guardian, 12 December 2009:
 * "There's been," says Abi Moore, a 38-year-old freelance television producer, "a wholesale pinkification of girls.
 * 2010, Ali Hanbury, Amelia Lee, & Janet Batsleer, "Youth work with girls: a feminist perspective", in What Is Youth Work? (eds. Janet Batsleer & Bernard Davies), Learning Matters Ltd (2010), ISBN 9781844454662, page 123:
 * Currently, for example, the 'pinkstinks' campaign, which is objecting to the 'pinkification' of all toys and clothes for little girls, offers much food for thought for work with young women.
 * 2011, Brian Reich, Shift and Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society, John Wiley & Sons (2011), ISBN 9780470942673, page 46:
 * The amount of money that ultimately goes to breast cancer research as a result of October's pinkification is itself up for debate.
 * 2011, Monique Roffey, With the Kisses of His Mouth, Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9780857204295, unnumbered page:
 * I stared at the book. It was pink. I strongly object to the pinkification of all products aimed at women.
 * 2012, Susanna Forrest, If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession, Atlantic Books (2012), ISBN 9780857891273, unnumbered page:
 * She traced the pinkification of girls' toys to mid-1980s marketing. It's nigh on impossible to get anything for girls that isn't pink nowadays, she said, and as I recalled gazing at the saddlery shops at Olympia I realized that soon it was going to be impossible to get anything for horses that wasn't pink.
 * 2012, Jo B. Paoletti, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America, Indiana University Press (2012), ISBN 9780253001177, unnumbered page:
 * For parents of girls, the most troubling aspects of their fashions in the last decade have been pinkification, princesses, and sexualization.
 * 2012, S. E. Smith, "Pinkification: how breast cancer awareness got commodified for profit", The Guardian, 3 October 2012:
 * Now, groups like Breast Cancer Action are having to fight cancer on two fronts: battling for patients, as well as fighting the rise of pinkification.
 * 2014, Melissa Atkins Wardy, Redefining Girly: How Parents Can Fight the Stereotyping and Sexualizing of Girlhood, from Birth to Tween, Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613745526, page 6:
 * I was learning a whole new vocabulary that described the things I was seeing firsthand—concepts such as early sexualization and binary gender marketing, age compression and princess culture, “pinkification,” and body image obsession.