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Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children's sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the author illustrates how sexuality is embedded in children's school-based cultures and gender identities. From examining children's own views and experiences, the book explores a range of topical and sensitive issues, including how:the primary school is a key social arena for 'doing' sexualitysexuality shapes children's friendships and peer relationsbeing a 'proper' girl or boy involves investing in a heterosexual identitychildren use gendered or sexual insults to maintain gender and sexual norms.Grounded in children's real-life experiences, this book traces their struggles, anxieties, desires and pleasures as they make sense of their emerging sexualities. It also includes frank and open discussions of the pressures of compulsory heterosexuality, the boyfriend/girlfriend culture, misogyny and sexual harassment.Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities is a timely and powerful resource for researchers, educationalists and students in childhood studies, sociology and psychology and will be of great interest to professionals and policy makers working with young children.

Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children's sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the author illustrates how sexuality is embedded in children's school-based cultures and gender identities. From examining children's own views and experiences, the book explores a range of topical and sensitive issues, including how:the primary school is a key social arena for 'doing' sexualitysexuality shapes children's friendships and peer relationsbeing a 'proper' girl or boy involves investing in a heterosexual identitychildren use gendered or sexual insults to maintain gender and sexual norms.Grounded in children's real-life experiences, this book traces their struggles, anxieties, desires and pleasures as they make sense of their emerging sexualities. It also includes frank and open discussions of the pressures of compulsory heterosexuality, the boyfriend/girlfriend culture, misogyny and sexual harassment.Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities is a timely and powerful resource for researchers, educationalists and students in childhood studies, sociology and psychology and will be of great interest to professionals and policy makers working with young children.

Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children''s sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the author illustrates how sexuality is embedded in children''s school-based cultures and gender identities. From examining children''s own views and experiences, the book explores a range of topical and sensitive issues, including how:

the primary school is a key social arena for ''doing'' sexuality sexuality shapes children''s friendships and peer relations being a ''proper'' girl or boy involves investing in a heterosexual identity children use gendered or sexual insults to maintain gender and sexual norms.

Grounded in children''s real-life experiences, this book traces their struggles, anxieties, desires and pleasures as they make sense of their emerging sexualities. It also includes frank and open discussions of the pressures of compulsory heterosexuality, the boyfriend/girlfriend culture, misogyny and sexual harassment.Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities is a timely and powerful resource for researchers, educationalists and students in childhood studies, sociology and psychology and will be of great interest to professionals and policy makers working with young children.

Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities takes an insightful and in-depth look at the hidden worlds of young children''s sexualities. Based upon extensive group interviews and observation, the author illustrates how sexuality is embedded in children''s school-based cultures and gender identities. From examining children''s own views and experiences, the book explores a range of topical and sensitive issues, including how:

the primary school is a key social arena for ''doing'' sexuality sexuality shapes children''s friendships and peer relations being a ''proper'' girl or boy involves investing in a heterosexual identity children use gendered or sexual insults to maintain gender and sexual norms.

Grounded in children''s real-life experiences, this book traces their struggles, anxieties, desires and pleasures as they make sense of their emerging sexualities. It also includes frank and open discussions of the pressures of compulsory heterosexuality, the boyfriend/girlfriend culture, misogyny and sexual harassment.Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities is a timely and powerful resource for researchers, educationalists and students in childhood studies, sociology and psychology and will be of great interest to professionals and policy makers working with young children.

This volume presents a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary chapters from international scholars which complicate, and offers new ways to make sense of, children's sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains.

This volume presents a ground-breaking collection of interdisciplinary chapters from international scholars which complicate, and offers new ways to make sense of, children''s sexual cultures across complex political, social and cultural terrains.