Harmful to Minors The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex

Name: Harmful to Minors The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
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ISBN: 9780816640065

ISBN-10: 0816640068

ISBN-13: 9780816640065

Edition: 2002

Authors: Judith Levine

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Through interviews with young people and their parents, stories drawn from today's headlines and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history, Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society.

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/26/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 5.87" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Foreword



Author's Note


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Peril and Pleasure, Parenting and Childhood



Harmful Protection



Censorship: The Sexual Media and the Ambivalence of Knowing



Manhunt: The Pedophile Panic



Therapy: "Children Who Molest" and the Tyranny of the Normal



Crimes of Passion: Statutory Rape and the Denial of Female Desire



No-Sex Education: From "Chastity" to "Abstinence"



Compulsory Motherhood: The End of Abortion



The Expurgation of Pleasure



Sense and Sexuality



The Facts: ... and Truthful Fictions



What Is Wanting?: Gender, Equality, and Desire



Good Touch: A Sensual Education



Community: Risk, Identity, and Love in the Age of AIDS


Epilogue: Morality


Notes


Index