Children, Sexuality and Sexualization

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.

Emma Renold is Professor of Childhood Studies at Cardiff University, UK. She is the author of Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities, Girls in Education 3-16 and Girls and Boys Speak Out: A Qualitative Study of Children's Gender and Sexual Cultures (NSPCC, Children's Commissioner's Office for Wales, Cardiff University).

R. Danielle Egan is Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University, US and a Psychoanalytic Candidate in Boston, US. She is the author of Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of Girls and Sexualization and, with Gail Hawkes, Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity (Palgrave).

Jessica Ringrose is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Education, UCL Institute of Education, UK. Her publications include: A Qualitative Study of Children, Young People and 'Sexting' (NSPCC, with Rosalind Gill, Sonia Livingstone and Laura Harvey); Post-Feminist Education?: Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling; Deleuze and Research Methodologies (co-edited with Rebecca Coleman).

1. Introduction; Emma Renold, R. Danielle Egan And Jessica Ringrose
PART I. MAPPING THE HISTORY OF RESEARCH AND THEORY WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE OF IDEAS.
2. Anthropologising Young/Minor Sexualities; Diederik F. Janssen
3. A Sociological History Of Researching Childhood And Sexuality: Continuities And Discontinuities; Stevi Jackson And Sue Scott
4. Reappraising Youth Subcultures And The Impact Upon Young People's Sexual Cultures: Links And Legacies In Studies Of Girlhood; Mary Jane Kehily And Joseph De Lappe
5. Anchoring Sexualization: Contextualizing And Explicating Psychological Research On The Sexualization Of Girls In The US; Deborah L. Tolman, Christin P. Bowman And Jennifer F. Chmielewski
6. What About The Boys?: Sexualisation, Media And Masculinities; Sara Bragg
7. Desexualising The Freudian Child In A Culture Of 'Sexualisation:' Trends And Implications; R. Danielle Egan
PART II. PRE-TEEN SEXUALITIES: PROBLEMATISING SEXUAL AGENCY AND SEXUAL INNOCENCE
8. Seeing (With) The 'Sexy' Body – Young Children's Visual Enactment Of Sexuality; Anna Sparrman
9. 'Bieber Fever': Girls, Desire And The Negotiation Of Girlhood Sexualities; Louisa Allen And Toni Ingraham
10. 'He's Cute, For Her': Kids' Entangled Pedagogies Of Sexuality And Race In New York City; Maria Kromidas
11. Children's Gendered And Sexual Cultures: Desiring And Regulating Recognition Through Life Markers Of Marriage, Love And Relationships; Kerry H. Robinson And Cristyn Davies
PART III. QUEERING YOUNG SEXUALITIES: GENDER, PLACE AND HISTORY
12. 'Istabane': South African Teenagers And The Regulation Of Sexuality, Gender And Culture; Deevia Bhana
13. 'Flaming Gays' And 'One Of The Boys'? White Middle Class Boys, Queer Sexualities And Gender In Icelandic High Schools; Jón Ingvar Kjaran
14. Resisting The Taint, Marking The Slut: Middle Class Lesbian Girls And Claims To Sexual Propriety; Elizabethe Payne
15. Mud, Mermaids And Burnt Wedding Dresses: Mapping Queer Assemblages In Teen Girls' Talk On Living With Gender And Sexual Violence; Emma Renold And Gabrielle Ivinson
PART IV. YOUNG SEXUALITIES AND THE CULTURAL IMAGINARY
16. A Doll Has No Holes: On The Queerness Of Brazilian Children; Diego Costa
17. Boys' Love Manga For Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings And English Law; Anna Madill
18. Documentaries On The Sexualisation Of Girls: Examining Slut-Shaming, Victim-Blaming, And What's Being Left Off-Screen; Lindsay Herriot And Lara E. Hiseler
PART V. NEW MEDIA, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND YOUNG SEXUAL CULTURES
19. New Visibilities?': Using Video Diaries To Explore Girls' Experiences Of Sexualised Culture; Sue Jackson And Tina Vares
20. Is There A New Normal? Young People Negotiate Pornification; Monique Mulholland
21. What Is Self-Exploitation?: Re-Thinking The Relationship Between 'Sexting', 'Sexualisation' And Responsibilisation In Law-And-Order Times; Lara Karaian
22. Sexting And (Mis)Recognition: Teen Boys' Performing Racialised Masculinities In Digitally Networked Publics; Laura Harvey And Jessica Ringrose