Childhood and Sexuality Contemporary Issues and Debates /

• Main Authors: Moore, Allison (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Reynolds, Paul (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Childhood.; Adolescence.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Childhood, Adolescence and Society.; Sexual Behavior.; Child and School Psychology.

This book explores how children engage with sex and sexuality. Building on a conceptual and legal grounding in sexuality studies and the new sociology of childhood, the authors debate the age of consent, teenage pregnany, sexual diversity, sexualisation, sex education and sexual literacy, paedophili...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Sexuality
• 3. Law, Policy and Practice: National and International Dimension
• 4. The Age of Consent
• 5. Constructing and Managing Risk: The Example of Teenage Pregnancy
• 6. Sexualisation of Childhood
• 7. Diversity and Difference
• 8. Schooling Sexuality
• 9. Sexual Literacy
• 9. Sex, Sexuality and Social Media: A New and Pressing Danger
• 10. Conclusion: Reconciling Childhood and Sexuality. .