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Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Egan, R. Danielle (Author), Hawkes, Gail (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Sociology, general.
Adolescence.
Children.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Sex (Psychology)
Social groups.
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (204 pages)
ISBN:9780230106000
DOI:10.1057/9780230106000