Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood : the contradictory nature of sexuality and censorship in children's contemporary lives.

Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood provides a critical examination of the way we regulate children's access to certain knowledge and explores how this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood, to children's vulnerability and to the constitution of the �...

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Main Author: Robinson, Kerry H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 The contradictory nature of children's contemporary lives; 2 Difficult knowledge and subjugated knowledge: adult/child relations and the regulation of citizenship; 3 Childhood innocence, moral panic and censorship: constructing the vulnerable child; 4 Schooling the vulnerable child: power/knowledge and the regulation of the adult normative citizen-subject; 5 Children's sexual subjectivities
  • 6 Parents, children's sexual subjectivity and the transmission of sexual knowledge across generations7 Critical conversations: building a culture of sexual ethics early in life; References; Index