Theorizing childhood sexuality in modernity
By: R. Danielle Egan and Gail Hawkes.
Contributors: Hawkes, Gail, 1945-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781403972576
Subjects: Children and sex -- History; Children -- Sexual behavior -- History
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. Historical analysis of the past two centuries offers some challenging and insightful answers. Drawing on a wide range of different materials from enlightenment philosophy, medicine, social purity sexual hygiene, psychoanalysis and child development, this book illustrates that current panics have a consistent and fascinating history. Egan and Hawkes strive to progress beyond the current impasse of fear and anxiety." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.