| Description |
xiv, 170 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- The contradictory nature of children's contemporary lives -- Difficult knowledge and subjugated knowledge : adult/child relations and the regulation of citizenship -- Childhood innocence, moral panic and censorship : constructing the vulnerable child -- Schooling the vulnerable child : power/knowledge and the regulation of the adult normative citizen-subject -- Children's sexual subjectivities -- Parents, children's sexual subjectivity and the transmission of sexual knowledge across generations -- Critical conversations : building a culture of sexual ethics early in life -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
This book provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children' s access to certain knowledge ' understood as ' difficult knowledge' ' and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children' s vulnerability, to broader social relationships (including adult-child relations of power), and to the constitution of the ' good' future citizen in developed countries. Through this analysis, the author critically engages with the relationships between childhood,.. |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Censorship.
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Child development -- Social aspects.
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Children and sex.
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Knowledge and learning -- Social aspects
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Sex instruction -- Australia.
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Early childhood education -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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Multicultural education -- Australia.
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| LC no. |
2012021449 |
| ISBN |
0415607639 paperback |
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0415609674 hardback |
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9780415607636 paperback |
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9780415609678 hardback |
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