Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence: how history can help us get past the panic

Autor: Gail Hawkes, R. Danielle Egan
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Gender and Education. 24:269-284
ISSN: 1360-0516
0954-0253
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2012.666232
Popis: Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive perspective on ‘the problem of sexualisation’. We forward a historically informed discourse analysis to render visible the longstanding, and deeply problematic, assumptions of childhood, gender and class at work in current concerns on sexualisation.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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