childhood sexuality

“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By notcheseditor November 3, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Mir Yarfitz In the 1950s, “youth” became a new consumer category of central importance to the worldwide social, cultural, and political transformations of the following decades. In The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Perón to Videla (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), Valeria […]

Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

By Sarah Emily Duff September 3, 2015 African Sexualities 0 comments

The purpose of sex education for most of the century was conservative.

Shirley Temple: The Unwitting Coquette

By Jen Baker February 17, 2014 Childhood and Youth 5 comments

Jen Baker Following the death of Hollywood child star Shirley Temple on February 10th this year, the media focused on her role as a girl who helped break down racial barriers and lift the spirits of a nation in the midst of the Depression, but whose childhood was simultaneously “stolen” […]

"A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England

By Jen Baker January 25, 2014 Childhood and Youth, Early Modern 8 comments

Jen Baker Records from the Old Bailey proceedings (the Central Criminal Court for England and Wales) indicate that the acknowledgement and subsequent punishment of sexual offences against children are not modern phenomena. Between 1674 and 1913 – when online public records cease – there are at least 570 documented cases, predominantly from the City […]