You might also like

More about Children and Sexuality

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 331 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The cases revived extend from Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll, from the Ancient Greeks to the Victorians, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance. The authors do not blindly accept the current cant about rampant child seduction as a recent phenomenon. Nor do they collectively agree that abuse occurred historically primarily in the absence of sufficient protection of children's rights. They demonstrate that much scandal of the past indulged adult fantasies about adult sexuality and loss of innocence, especially the quest for possession of perfect bodies. This collection is grounded in history and literature, biography and social relationships, yet also engages with current debates in literary and cultural history, and with the new history of childhood. It goes a long way toward demonstrating that considerations of children and sexuality have moved on from what they were when the American psychohistorian Lloyd deMause wrote about it a generation ago.

Book details

Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Children and Sexuality
• Author: George Rousseau
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 371
• EAN: 9781137281777
• ISBN: 1137281774
• ID: 01212941
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 494 g
• Dimensions: 213 × 138 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2007

Trending among others

---

---

---