Children, Sexuality and Sexualization

✍ Scribed by Emma Renold, Jessica Ringrose, R. Danielle Egan (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 402
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary chapters from international scholars which complicate, and offers new ways to make sense of, children's sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Anthropologizing Young/Minor Sexualities....Pages 21-38
A Sociological History of Researching Childhood and Sexuality: Continuities and Discontinuities....Pages 39-55
Reappraising Youth Subcultures and the Impact upon Young People’s Sexual Cultures: Links and Legacies in Studies of Girlhood....Pages 56-70
Anchoring Sexualization: Contextualizing and Explicating the Contribution of Psychological Research on the Sexualization of Girls in the US and Beyond....Pages 71-88
What about the Boys?: Sexualization, Media and Masculinities....Pages 89-104
Desexualizing the Freudian Child in a Culture of ‘Sexualization’: Trends and Implications....Pages 105-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Seeing (with) the ‘Sexy’ Body: Young Children’s Visual Enactment of Sexuality....Pages 123-140
‘Bieber Fever’: Girls, Desire and the Negotiation of Girlhood Sexualities....Pages 141-158
‘He’s Cute, for Her’: Kids’ Entangled Pedagogies of Sexuality and Race in New York City....Pages 159-173
Children’s Gendered and Sexual Cultures: Desiring and Regulating Recognition through Life Markers of Marriage, Love and Relationships....Pages 174-190
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
‘Istabane’: South African Teenagers and the Regulation of Sexuality, Gender and Culture....Pages 193-208
‘Flaming Gays’ and ‘One of the Boys’? White Middle-class Boys, Queer Sexualities and Gender in Icelandic High Schools....Pages 209-223
Resisting the Taint, Marking the Slut: Middle-class Lesbian Girls and Claims to Sexual Propriety....Pages 224-238
Mud, Mermaids and Burnt Wedding Dresses: Mapping Queer Becomings in Teen Girls’ Talk on Living with Gender and Sexual Violence....Pages 239-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
A Doll Has No Holes: On the Queerness of Brazilian Children in Xuxa....Pages 259-272
Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law....Pages 273-288
Documentaries on the Sexualization of Girls: Examining Slut-shaming, Victim-blaming and What’s Being Left Off-screen....Pages 289-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
New Visibilities? ‘Using Video Diaries to Explore Girls’ Experiences of Sexualized Culture....Pages 307-320
Is There a New Normal? Young People Negotiate Pornification....Pages 321-336
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
What Is Self-exploitation? Rethinking the Relationship between Sexualization and ‘Sexting’ in Law and Order Times....Pages 337-351
Sexting, Ratings and (Mis)Recognition: Teen Boys Performing Classed and Racialized Masculinities in Digitally Networked Publics....Pages 352-367
Back Matter....Pages 368-388

✦ Subjects

Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging;Gender Studies;Youth Culture;Childhood, Adolescence and Society;Crime and Society;Media Sociology