Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity

• Author(s): R. Egan, Gail Hawkes,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 190
• ISBN_10: 0230106005
  ISBN_13: 9780230106000
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Children's Studies , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family , Social Science / Sociology / General , Family & Relationships / Life Stages / General ,

Description:... 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.