| Description |
xiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Palgrave Connect
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction.Back to the Future -- 1.Constructing the Modern Sexual Child -- 2.The Sexual Child and the Social Purity Movement -- 3.Sexual Hygiene and the Habituation of Childhood Sexuality -- 4.Sexology and the New Normality -- 5.Freud and the Cartography of Infantile Sexuality -- 6.Developing the Sexual Child -- Concluding Thoughts and Potentials for Future Thinking |
| 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. 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 |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Children and sex -- History.
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Children -- Sexual behavior -- History.
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Sexual Behavior -- history.
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Child.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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| Author |
Hawkes, Gail, 1945-
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| LC no. |
2009039971 |
| ISBN |
1403972575 (alk. paper) |
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9781403972576 (alk. paper) |
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