Steven Angelides is affiliated with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society at La Trobe University and is an honorary senior research fellow in the Department of Modern History, Politics, and International Relations at Macquarie University. He is the author of A History of Bisexuality, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
"[The Fear of Child Sexuality] serves as a courageous and powerful
effort at forging a more ethical and equitable administration of
sexuality against the manufactured silence that insulates current
norms."-- "Journal of the History of Sexuality"
"The Fear of Child Sexuality, by Steven Angelides, demonstrates
that children are sexual beings and writes about an environment
where children should be protected but also allowed to express
their sexuality."-- "Metapsychology Online Reviews"
"An amazing, provocative, and eloquent book. No one interested in
the historical shape and affective force of sex panics can ignore
The Fear of Child Sexuality. With critical rigor and political
nuance, Angelides eschews the morality tales offered about child
sexuality to detail instead the way cultural discourses on the
right and the left work against both the sexual rights and sexual
agencies of children."-- "Robyn Wiegman, Duke University"
"An impressive, fearless account of how, in states of panic, we
take sexual agency from adolescents. The Fear of Child Sexuality
pushes feminist theories of power and consent out of their comfort
zones, arguing that our attempts to protect have also been sources
of harm. This is transformational scholarship on the pleasures and
dangers of teenage desire."-- "Elizabeth Wilson, Emory
University"
"With forensic generosity and customary brilliance, Angelides
performs a remarkable feat. The diversity of children's sexual
agency flowers in this book--strangely under the force of fear.
Impeccably researched, evincing insight at every turn, The Fear of
Child Sexuality is a wild and stunning ride."-- "Kathryn Bond
Stockton, University of Utah"
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