R. Egan & Kenneth A. Loparo 
Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity 

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.

Table of Content

Introduction: Back to the Future Constructing the Modern Sexual Child The Sexual Child and the Social Purity Movement Sexual Hygiene and the Habituation of Childhood Sexuality Sexology and the New Normality Freud and the Cartography of Infantile Sexuality Developing the Sexual Child Concluding Thoughts and Potentials for Future Thinking

About the author

R. DANIELLE EGAN is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, USA.
 
GAIL HAWKES teaches sociology at the University of New England, Australia.