Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood

by Emily W. Kane, Phil Jones (Editor)

Overview

Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood explores gender and sexuality in children's lives, from early childhood through adolescence, bringing together key inter-disciplinary perspectives. Kane explores how childhood gender and sexuality are constructed, resisted, and refined within children's peer cultures, within social institutions like the family, education, and media and the role the state holds in structuring children's lives - defining their rights and opportunities through gender and sexuality-related policies and programs.

Examples of research, interviews, activities, key points and guidance on further reading encourage the reader to actively engage with the material and to develop a critical relationship with the content.

Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood is essential for those studying childhood at undergraduate and graduate level and of great interest to those working with children in any field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441190574
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Series:	New Childhoods
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	467 KB

About the Author

Emily W. Kane is Professor of Sociology and a member of the Program in Women and Gender Studies at Bates College, USA.
Emily W. Kane is Professor of Sociology and a member of the
Program in Women and Gender Studies at Bates College, USA.
Phil Jones is Professor of Children's Rights and Wellbeing at the IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He has published a number of books and articles including Exploring Education and Childhood: From Current Certainties to New Visions (with Wyse, Davis and Rogers 2015) and Rethinking Childhood (2009). He has conducted research funded by the Children's Commissioner for England and by the LankellyChase Foundation.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface
Introduction
Part I: Debates, Dilemmas and Challenges: The Background to Gender and Sexuality in Childhood
1. Introduction
2. Children's Gender and Sexuality: Issues and Debates Defined
Part II: An Interdisciplinary Overview of Recent Research and Scholarship
3. The Social Construction of Gender and Sexuality in Childhood, Key Research Issues and Findings
Part III: Implications for Children's Lives
4. Gender, Sexuality and the Family
5. Gender, Sexuality and Education
6. Gender, Sexuality, and Media
7. Gender and Sexuality in Children's Peer Cultures
Conclusion
Further Reading
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in Childhood is an important review of contemporary research and advocacy, premised upon the need to listen to a diversity of children's voices and respect their participation in constructing their own realities. Its focus on children's rights through the lens of gender and sexuality is timely and will be useful for students, researchers, activists and practitioners interested in current key issues affecting children, such as sexual and relationship violence, poverty, and homophobic discrimination.
Metapsychology

This is a remarkably readable and comprehensive portrait of gender and sexuality in childhood. Kane has brought together cutting edge research and vivid examples from across the social sciences. Her concise prose and key questions are thought provoking and will engage students of both childhood studies and gender and sexuality studies.
Kathryn Simpson, Senior Lecturer in English, School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK

This is an ideal book to introduce students of contemporary childhoods to issues of gender and sexuality. It explains and demystifies complex issues and encourages students to engage with these ideas through the use of in-text activities. An essential addition to student reading lists.
California Bookwatch

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