This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west. Historical analysis of the past two centuries offers some challenging and insightful answers. Drawing on a wide range of different materials from enlightenment philosophy, medicine, social purity sexual hygiene, psychoanalysis and child development, this book illustrates that current panics have a consistent and fascinating history. Egan and Hawkes strive to progress beyond the current impasse of fear and anxiety.
Author(s): R. Danielle Egan, Gail Hawkes
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 205
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Back to the Future......Page 16
One: Constructing the Modern Sexual Child......Page 28
Two: The Sexual Child and the Social Purity Movement......Page 48
Three: Sexual Hygiene and the Habituation of Childhood Sexuality......Page 66
Four: Sexology and the New Normality......Page 90
Five: Freud and the Cartography of Infantile Sexuality......Page 112
Six: Developing the Sexual Child......Page 140
Concluding: Thoughts and Potentials for Future Thinking......Page 162
Notes......Page 172
Bibliography......Page 186
C......Page 200
F......Page 201
K......Page 202
O......Page 203
S......Page 204
Z......Page 205
