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.
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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. 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.
Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | March 2010 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | March 2010 |
Authors | Regan, Gail Hawkes |
Dimensions | 216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Cloth over boards |
Pages | 190 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4039-7257-6 |
Barcode | 9781403972576 |
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LSN | 1-4039-7257-5 |