Contributions

  • Hawkes, Gail, 1945- - Contributor

Publication

2010 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

47,500 words, Guess

Page Count

190 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101403972575
  • ISBN-139781403972576
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009039971
  • OCLC Control Number226357159
  • Better World Books9781403972576
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC306.7083
  • LCCHQ784.S45 E43 2010
  • LCCHM721-726HM401-1281H
and 1 more
  • LCCHQ784.S45 E36 2010

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.

Subjects

Topics

KindChildHistoryChildrenSexual behaviorChildren and sexSexualwissenschaft

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