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Gender and sexuality are often problematically considered to be irrelevant to very young children. This Handbook surveys, challenges and advances the theories, research approaches, and practices around gender and sexuality in the early years and foregrounds early childhood as a crucial site for constructions and deconstructions around gender and sexuality. The Handbook features chapters by leading academics, practitioners, and policy makers based in Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, South Africa, the UK and the USA. It covers a range of key critical theories, methods and practices including engagements with post-developmentalism, feminist, Black feminist, queer and trans theories, intersections with indigeneity, race, and class, ethnography, action research, care ethics, and sexual health. The Handbook illuminates the importance of attending to gender and sexuality in the early childhood across various sites, including in the classroom, at home, in policy, and more.

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This essential book explores multiple perspectives, challenges assumptions, disrupts cisnormativity, and critiques developmentalist frameworks while exposing the colonial and racialised constructions of childhood, gender, and sexuality. It provides an invaluable foundation for transformative, identity-affirming approaches, equitable pedagogies, and critical practice. -- Rachel Chapman, Senior Lecturer of Early Childhood Education, Melbourne Polytechnic, Australia This book is a powerful collection with a diversity of perspectives on early childhood gender and sexuality. The authors put forward a vision for the field that highlight intersectional frameworks and experiences. -- Mario Suarez, Associate Professor, Utah State University, USA

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Jessica Prioletta is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Bishop’s University, Canada. Adam Davies is Assistant Professor in the College of Arts/College of Social and Applied Human Sciences at the University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. Kylie Smith is Professor in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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