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By Emma Renold

ISBN-10: 0415314968

ISBN-13: 9780415314961

Women, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth examine the hidden worlds of younger kid's sexualities. dependent upon huge team interviews and remark, the writer illustrates how sexuality is embedded in kid's school-based cultures and gender identities. From analyzing kid's personal perspectives and reports, the e-book explores a number topical and delicate concerns, together with how: the first university is a key social enviornment for 'doing' sexuality sexuality shapes kid's friendships and peer kinfolk being a 'proper' lady or boy contains making an investment in a heterosexual id young ones use gendered or sexual insults to take care of gender and sexual norms. Grounded in kid's real-life stories, this publication lines their struggles, anxieties, wants and pleasures as they make experience in their rising sexualities. additionally it is frank and open discussions of the pressures of obligatory heterosexuality, the boyfriend/girlfriend tradition, misogyny and sexual harassment.Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities is a well timed and robust source for researchers, educationalists and scholars in youth experiences, sociology and psychology and should be of serious curiosity to pros and coverage makers operating with teenagers.

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Many of these themes will run throughout the subsequent chapters and will be developed further in the concluding chapter. Locating sexualities: the importance of time and space Since Best’s groundbreaking ethnography of the ‘third hidden curriculum’ a number of researchers have begun to identify primary schools as ‘significant cultural sites in which sexualities are produced, reproduced and contested’ and how pupils are actively engaged ‘from a very early age, in the production of sexual meanings, practices, power relations and identities’ within these sites (Redman 1996: 175).

Transgression of such rules […] jeopardises a child’s chance to even be considered a child. The Victorian era, for example, is widely recognised for its images and writings that connect the sexual with dominant concepts of childhood. Since then, the regulation of children’s sexuality has been addressed in a number of areas, including: masturbation (Foucault 1978); school organisation (Fishman 1982); child sensuality in parenting manuals (Jenkins 1998b); advertising and other sexualised images featuring children (Higonnet 1998; Holland 2004); ages of sexual consent (Walkowitz 1992) and most notably, child prostitution and adult/child sexual abuse (Kitzinger 1990; Kelly et al.

Each key finding is selected specifically to challenge the often heteronormative, highly gendered and ageist assumptions of young children’s presumed sexual innocence in the wider media and current UK sex education policy and guidance. Each point aims to encourage a thinking Otherwise about the sexualisation of gender and the gendering of sexuality in the social worlds and identity-work of primary school children. It is not the intention of this book to offer specific suggestions and strategies to professionals and practitioners regarding anti-(hetero)sexist and anti-oppressive practice.

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