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This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.

Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity

Introduction: Back to the Future Constructing the Modern Sexual Child The Sexual Child and the Social Purity Movement Sexual Hygiene and the Habituation of Childhood Sexuality Sexology and the New Normality Freud and the Cartography of Infantile Sexuality Developing the Sexual Child Concluding Thoughts and Potentials for Future Thinking