1st Edition
Of Innocence and Autonomy Children, Sex and Human Rights
Edited By Eric Heinze
Copyright 2000
224 Pages
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Routledge
448 Pages
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Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: This anthology of essays focuses on the human rights of children in the area of sexuality. Looking at the theoretical aspects, essays examine the history and construction of concepts of childhood and child sexuality, while other essays take an interdisciplinary approach, examining anthropological, sociological, psychological and economic perspectives... Read more
List of Contributors, Table of Publications, Foreword by Katherine O'Donovan, Preface, Series Preface, Part I. Constructing Childhood: Theory and History, 1. The Universal Child?, 2. Historical Constructions of Childhood Innocence: Removing Sexuality, Part II. Legislating Childhood: International and Comparative Perspectives, 3. Sexuality and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and British Legislation on Child Abuse and Sexuality, 5. Russian Children: The Obscenity of Political Fantasy, Part III. Abusing Childhood: Critical Dimensions and Practical Consequences, 6. Punishing Children and Pleasuring Adults: One, Both or Neither?, 7. Lolita at the Interface of Obscenity: Children and the Right to Free Expression, 8. Childhood Sexual Abuse as a Predictor of Substance Use and HIV/AIDS Risk Behaviour among Women at Admission to Prison, Part IV. Empowering Childhood: Awareness, Development and Education, 9. Sex Education: Child's Right, Parent's Choice or State's Obligation?, 10. Health and Education: Conflicting Programmes for Sex Education, 11. Seeking a Gendered Adolescence: Legal and Ethical Problems of Puberty Suppression among Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria
Biography
Eric Heinze
