Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights - Children, Sex and Human Rights

Informationen zum Autor Eric Heinze Zusammenfassung This title was first published in 2000: This anthology of essays focuses on the human rights of children in the area of sexuality. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Constructing childhood - theory and history: the universal child ?; historical constructions of childhood innocence - removing sexuality. Part 2 Legislating childhood - international and comparative perspectives: sexuality and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ; the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and British legislation on child abuse and sexuality; Russian children - the obscenity of political fantasy. Part 3 Abusing childhood - critical dimensions and practical consequences: punishing children and pleasuring adults - one, both or neither? ; Lolita at the interface of obscenity - children and the right to free expression; childhood sexual abuse as a predictor of substance use and HIV/AIDS risk; behaviour among women at admission to prison. Part 4 Empowering childhood - awareness, development and education: sex education - child's right, parent's choice or state's obligation? ; health and education - conflicting programmes for sex education; seeking a gendered adolescence - legal and ethical problems of puberty suppression among adolescents with gender dysphoria.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Heinze, Katherine O’Donovan
• Assisted by: Eric Heinze (Editor), Heinze Eric (Editor), Katherine O'Donovan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138728264
• ISBN: 978-1-138-72826-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General