Children and the Politics of Sexuality: The Sexualization of Children Debate Revisited

This book discusses already established accounts about the sexualization of children through a theoretical and an empirical framework which bring together popular culture, consumption, sexuality, selfhood and childhood. Adopting the view that the debate about the sexualization of childhood is socially constructed, it pushes beyond the dominant preconceptions about æthe risks of childhoodÆ. Moral judgements about childrenÆs welfare are perhaps nowhere more transient and controversial than when it comes to childrenÆs sexuality, something that has deep historical roots. However, and contrary to recurrent fears and moral panics about the loss of childhood as a result of a tidal wave of a sexualizing culture, this book theorizes the notion of childrenÆs sexualization within the social construction of myths of childhood innocence while also taking into account the extent of young peopleÆs actual engagement with media and technology in contemporary Western societies. It is within such a contextual framework that this book unfolds, bringing together a historical contextualization of childhood, sexuality and pornography with contemporary empirical accounts regarding the æpresentation of the selfÆ and self-management.

• | Author: Liza Tsaliki
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 22, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1137033401
• | ISBN-13: 9781137033406