Overview
This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.
Full Product Details
Author: R. Egan ,
Kenneth A. Loparo
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.390kg
ISBN: 9781403972576
ISBN 10: 1403972575
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 14 April 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p>“Though we have been in the grips of a kind of high-voltage paralysis on the subject of sexualizing children for at least half a century, this book is really the first to provide not only a broad-ranging analysis and history, but a reasoned and humane way out of it. It is a powerful and highly significant work that should generate wide discussion and pointed action.”—James R Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California; author of Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture and Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting <p>“This timely and thought-provoking book locates anxieties about children and sexuality in historical perspective, prompting us to question the ‘sexualization phobia’ that has become such a pervasive feature of debates on childhood in contemporary western societies.”—Stevi Jackson, Professor of Sociology and Director of The Centre for Women’s Studies, The Unive
<p> Though we have been in the grips of a kind of high-voltage paralysis on the subject of sexualizing children for at least half a century, this book is really the first to provide not only a broad-ranging analysis and history, but a reasoned and humane way out of it. It is a powerful and highly significant work that should generate wide discussion and pointed action. --James R Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California; author of Child-Loving: The Erotic Child and Victorian Culture and Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting <p> This timely and thought-provoking book locates anxieties about children and sexuality in historical perspective, prompting us to question the 'sexualization phobia' that has become such a pervasive feature of debates on childhood in contemporary western societies. --Stevi Jackson, Professor of Sociology and Director of The Centre for Women's Studies, The University of York, UK; author of Childhood and Sexualit
Author Information
R. DANIELLE EGAN is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, USA. GAIL HAWKES teaches sociology at the University of New England, Australia.
