About the Book
Offering critical response to a range of popular debates on children's sexual cultures, this ground-breaking volume challenges preconceived and accepted theories regarding children, sexuality and sexualisation.
The contributions to this collection offer compelling accounts from a range of disciplinary fields and transnational contexts to present original empirical research findings, which offer new ways to make sense of children's sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains. Organised into five sections, this book addresses the history of young sexualities research and theory across disciplinary boundaries; pre-teen sexualities and a re-thinking of sexual agency and innocence; how space, place and history shape young queer sexualities; the representation of young sexualities in the popular cultural imaginary; and the role of new media and digital technology in the formation of children and young people's sexual cultures.
About the Author: Deevia Bhana, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Christin Bowman, City University of New York, US. Sara Bragg, University of Brighton, UK. Jennifer Chmielewski, City University of New York, US. Diego Costa, University of Southern California, US. Cristyn Davies, University of Sydney, Australia. Diederik F. Janssen, independent scholar, the Netherlands. Laura Harvey, University of Surrey, UK. Lindsay Herriot, University of Alberta, Canada. Lara E. Hiseler, University of Alberta, Canada. Gabrielle Ivinson, Aberdeen University, UK. Sue Jackson, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Stevi Jackson, University of York, UK. Lara Karaian, Carleton University, Canada. Mary Jane Kehily, the Open University, UK. Joseph De Lappe, the Open University, UK. Jón Ingvar Kjaran, School of Education, University of Iceland. Maria Kromidas, William Paterson University, US. Anna Madill, University of Leeds, UK. Monique Mulholland, Flinders University, South Australia. Elizabethe Payne, QuERI Queering Education Research Institute(c), US, Hunter College, US and City University of New York, US. Kerry Robinson, University of Western Sydney, Australia. Sue Scott, University of York, UK, University of Edinburgh, UK and University of Helsinki, Finland. Anna Sparrman, Linköping University, Sweden. Tina Vares, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.