Children and Sexuality

From the Greeks to the Great War

  • George Rousseau
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood book series (PSHC)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      George Rousseau
      Pages 1-38

  3. The Ancient and Early Modern World

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 39-39
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    2. Juvenile Crime, Aggression and Abuse in Fifth-century Athens: a Case Study
      Michael Vickers, Daphne Nash Briggs
      Pages 41-84
    3. Incest between Adults and Children in the Medieval World
      Elizabeth Archibald
      Pages 85-107
    4. ‘Under-Age’ Sexual Activity in Reformation Geneva
      William G. Naphy
      Pages 108-141
    5. Privilege, Power and Sexual Abuse in Georgian Oxford
      George Rousseau
      Pages 142-169

  4. Victorians and Edwardians

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 171-171
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    2. ‘You Have Made me Tear the Veil From Those Most Secret Feelings’: John Addington Symonds Amidst the Children
      George Rousseau
      Pages 173-205
    3. Platonic Dons, Adolescent Bodies: Benjamin Jowett, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater
      Stefano Evangelista
      Pages 206-236
    4. The Nineteenth-Century Photographic Likeness and the Body of the Child
      Lindsay Smith
      Pages 237-267
    5. Victorian Girlhood: Eroticizing the Maternal, Maternalizing the Erotic: Same-Sex Relations between Girls, c. 1880-1920
      Alison Hennegan
      Pages 268-298
    6. At Once A-sexual and Anal: Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts
      Elleke Boehmer
      Pages 299-315

  5. The Anthropological View

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 317-317
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    2. Child Sexual Abuse — an Anthropological Perspective
      Heather Montgomery
      Pages 319-347
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 348-371
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About this book

Introduction

Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.

Keywords

aggression Case Studies Plato Privileg reform renaissance women

Editors and affiliations

  • George Rousseau
    • 1
  1. 1.University of OxfordUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230590526
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-35744-4
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-59052-6
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