Children and Sexuality discusses the historical relationship between children and sexuality, and the changing views of child-adult relations in the sexual domain, in a series of case studies extending from the Greeks to the Great War. Chapters provide highly original interpretations of these cases that challenge the received views of children and sexuality, as well as traditional disciplinary conventions. While the book is firmly grounded in history and literature, biography and social custom, it also engages with current debates in literary and cultural history; as well as the new history and anthropology of childhood
Author(s): George S. Rousseau
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 394
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 13
Notes on the Contributors......Page 17
1 Introduction......Page 20
Part I: The Ancient and Early Modern World......Page 58
2 Juvenile Crime, Aggression and Abuse in Fifth-century Athens: a Case Study......Page 60
3 Incest between Adults and Children in the Medieval World......Page 104
4 'Under-Age' Sexual Activity in Reformation Geneva......Page 127
5 Privilege, Power and Sexual Abuse in Georgian Oxford......Page 161
Part II: Victorians and Edwardians......Page 190
6 'You Have Made me Tear the Veil From Those Most Secret Feelings': John Addington Symonds Amidst the Children......Page 192
7 Platonic Dons, Adolescent Bodies: Benjamin Jowett, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater......Page 225
8 The Nineteenth-Century Photographic Likeness and the Body of the Child......Page 256
9 Victorian Girlhood: Eroticizing the Maternal, Maternalizing the Erotic: Same-Sex Relations between Girls, c. 1880–1920......Page 287
10 At Once A-sexual and Anal: Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts......Page 318
Part III: The Anthropological View......Page 336
11 Child Sexual Abuse – an Anthropological Perspective......Page 338
A......Page 367
B......Page 369
C......Page 371
D......Page 374
F......Page 375
G......Page 376
H......Page 377
I......Page 378
K......Page 379
L......Page 380
M......Page 381
O......Page 382
P......Page 383
Q......Page 385
S......Page 386
V......Page 389
Z......Page 390
