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The age of consent : young people, sexuality, and citizenship

Author
Waites, Matthew.
Title
The age of consent : young people, sexuality, and citizenship / Matthew Waites.
Format
Book
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Description
viii, 285 p. ; 22 cm.
URL
<Contributor biographical information> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005040889-b.html <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005040889-d.html <Table of contents only> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0623/2005040889-t.html
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-271) and index.
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 the age of consent.
Kinsey subjects
Age of consent--Great Britain. Sex behavior--Adolescent--Great Britain. Sex laws--Great Britain.
ISBN
1403921733 9781403921734

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
346 W35 a4 2005
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute