Childhood and sexuality : contemporary issues and debates / Allison Moore, Paul Reynolds.
2018
HQ784.S45
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Title
Childhood and sexuality : contemporary issues and debates / Allison Moore, Paul Reynolds.
ISBN
9781137524973 (electronic book)
1137524979 (electronic book)
9781137524959
1137524979 (electronic book)
9781137524959
Published
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 305 pages)
Call Number
HQ784.S45
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.7083
Summary
This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality. Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex education and sexual literacy, paedophilia, and sex in the digital age. Whilst Moore and Reynolds recognise the necessity of child protection and safeguarding in the context of risk, danger and harm, they also argue that where these stifle children's sexual knowledge, understanding, expression and experience, they contribute to a climate of fear, ignorance and bad experiences or harms. What is necessary is to balance safeguarding with enabling, and encourage judicious understandings that advance from a rigid developmental model to one that recognises pleasure and excitement in children's nascent sexual lives. Exploring that balance through their chosen issues, they seek to encourage changed thinking in professional, personal and academic contexts, and speculate that children might teach adults something about the way they think about sex. Childhood and Sexuality will be of interest to students, scholars and professionals across a range of subjects and disciplines including sociology, social work, criminology, and youth studies.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 2, 2017).
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Reynolds, Paul, 1962- author.
Series
Studies in childhood and youth.
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Childhood and sexuality.
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Table of Contents
Theoretical approaches to the study of childhood and sexuality
Law, policy and practice : national and international dimensions
The age of consent
Constructing and managing risk : the example of teenage pregnancy
The sexualisation of childhood
Diversity and difference
Sex and sexuality education
Sexual literacy
Sex, sexuality, and social media : a new and pressing danger?
Reconciling childhood and sexuality.
Law, policy and practice : national and international dimensions
The age of consent
Constructing and managing risk : the example of teenage pregnancy
The sexualisation of childhood
Diversity and difference
Sex and sexuality education
Sexual literacy
Sex, sexuality, and social media : a new and pressing danger?
Reconciling childhood and sexuality.