Children, Sexuality and Sexualization

1. Introduction
Emma Renold, R. Danielle Egan, Jessica Ringrose

Part I. Mapping the History of Research and Theory within the Landscape of Ideas

2. Anthropologizing Young/Minor Sexualities
Diederik F. Janssen

3. A Sociological History of Researching Childhood and Sexuality: Continuities and Discontinuities
Stevi Jackson, Sue Scott

4. Reappraising Youth Subcultures and the Impact upon Young People’s Sexual Cultures: Links and Legacies in Studies of Girlhood
Mary Jane Kehily, Joseph Lappe

5. Anchoring Sexualization: Contextualizing and Explicating the Contribution of Psychological Research on the Sexualization of Girls in the US and Beyond
Deborah L. Tolman, Christin P. Bowman, Jennifer F. Chmielewski

6. What about the Boys?: Sexualization, Media and Masculinities
Sara Bragg

7. Desexualizing the Freudian Child in a Culture of ‘Sexualization’: Trends and Implications
R. Danielle Egan

Part II. Pre-teen Sexualities: Problematizing Sexual Agency and Sexual Innocence

8. Seeing (with) the ‘Sexy’ Body: Young Children’s Visual Enactment of Sexuality
Anna Sparrman

9. ‘Bieber Fever’: Girls, Desire and the Negotiation of Girlhood Sexualities
Louisa Allen, Toni Ingram

10. ‘He’s Cute, for Her’: Kids’ Entangled Pedagogies of Sexuality and Race in New York City
Maria Kromidas

11. Children’s Gendered and Sexual Cultures: Desiring and Regulating Recognition through Life Markers of Marriage, Love and Relationships
Kerry H. Robinson, Cristyn Davies

Part III. Queering Young Sexualities: Gender, Place and History

12. ‘Istabane’: South African Teenagers and the Regulation of Sexuality, Gender and Culture
Deevia Bhana

13. ‘Flaming Gays’ and ‘One of the Boys’? White Middle-class Boys, Queer Sexualities and Gender in Icelandic High Schools
Jón Ingvar Kjaran

14. Resisting the Taint, Marking the Slut: Middle-class Lesbian Girls and Claims to Sexual Propriety
Elizabethe Payne

15. Mud, Mermaids and Burnt Wedding Dresses: Mapping Queer Becomings in Teen Girls’ Talk on Living with Gender and Sexual Violence
Emma Renold, Gabrielle Ivinson

Part IV. Young Sexualities and the Cultural Imaginary

16. A Doll Has No Holes: On the Queerness of Brazilian Children in Xuxa
Diego Costa

17. Boys’ Love Manga for Girls: Paedophilic, Satirical, Queer Readings and English Law
Anna Madill

18. Documentaries on the Sexualization of Girls: Examining Slut-shaming, Victim-blaming and What’s Being Left Off-screen
Lindsay Herriot, Lara E. Hiseler

Part V. New Media, Digital Technology and Young Sexual Cultures

19. New Visibilities? ‘Using Video Diaries to Explore Girls’ Experiences of Sexualized Culture
Sue Jackson, Tina Vares

20. Is There a New Normal? Young People Negotiate Pornification
Monique Mulholland

21. What Is Self-exploitation? Rethinking the Relationship between Sexualization and ‘Sexting’ in Law and Order Times
Lara Karaian

22. Sexting, Ratings and (Mis)Recognition: Teen Boys Performing Classed and Racialized Masculinities in Digitally Networked Publics
Laura Harvey, Jessica Ringrose

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Youth Culture, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Crime and Society, Media Sociology