THE AGE OF CONSENT
Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship
Matthew Waites
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Pub date: Oct 2005
296 pages
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This book analyzes the development of age of consent laws in the UK from the nineteenth century to the present, in international perspective. The analysis, informed by contemporary perspectives in social theory on gender, sexuality, youth and childhood, focuses upon changing understandings of citizenship embodied in the law.
Author Bio
Matthew Waites
is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University.
Table of contents
Introduction * Theorising Age of Consent Laws * Age of Consent Laws in Global Perspective * Heterosexuality and the Age of Consent * Homosexuality and the Age of Consent * Sexual Liberationism and the Search for New Sexual Knowledge * Equality at Last? Age of Consent Debates in the 1990s * New Age of Consent Laws: Adulthood and Childhood * Rethinking Age of Consent Laws
