Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood: The Contradictory Nature of Sexuality and Censorship in Children's Contemporary Lives

ISBN-13: 9780415607636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 184 str.

Kerry Robinson

Opis

This text provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children's access to certain knowledge - understood as 'difficult knowledge' - and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood.

Spis treści

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 Generations  7. Critical Conversations – Building a Culture of Sexual Ethics Early in Life

O autorze

Kerry H. Robinson is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, and a member of the Diversities, Ethics and Education Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.