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The importance of being innocent : why we worry about children /

The Importance of Being Innocent addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children, predation on them by pedophiles and the risks apparently posed to their 'innate innocence' by perceived problems and threats in contemporary society. Joan...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Faulkner, Joanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Australian encounters.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Encounters with childhood / by Tony Moore
  • Why do we worry about children?
  • Consuming the innocent : innocence as a cultural and political product
  • The communal fantasy and its discontents : the child's place in political community
  • Disciplining innocence : knowledge, power and the contemporary child
  • Fallen innocents : adolescents, aboriginal and stateless children
  • When fantasies become nightmares : purveyors and pornographers of innocence.