A New Materialist (Re) Configuring of Sexuality, Age, and the Discourse of ‘Childhood Innocence’

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aut.relation.journalChildren & Society
dc.contributor.authorIngram, Toni
dc.contributor.authorAllen, L
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-20T03:30:58Z
dc.date.available2024-09-20T03:30:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-19
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the potential of feminist new materialisms for rethinking enduring debates that cohere around children, sexuality, age and ‘childhood innocence’. A new materialist ontology of sexuality and Karen Barad's concept of spacetimemattering are employed to conceptualise sexuality as an emergent becoming of relational material-discursive forces. Within this paradigm, mobilisation of arguments about ‘sexual innocence and readiness’ become a matter of entanglement of contingent ‘things’, ‘spaces’ and ‘ideas’, that includes young people's own sexual knowledge. We consider how this reorientation shifts the contours, debates and possibilities of sexuality education beyond restrictive ‘age-appropriate’ narratives.
dc.identifier.citationChildren & Society, ISSN: 0951-0605 (Print); 1099-0860 (Online), Wiley. doi: 10.1111/chso.12906
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/chso.12906
dc.identifier.issn0951-0605
dc.identifier.issn1099-0860
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18027
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/chso.12906
dc.rights© 2024 The Author(s). Children & Society published by National Children's Bureau and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rights.accessrightsOpenAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject1605 Policy and Administration
dc.subject1607 Social Work
dc.subject1608 Sociology
dc.subjectSocial Work
dc.subject4407 Policy and administration
dc.subject4409 Social work
dc.subject4410 Sociology
dc.titleA New Materialist (Re) Configuring of Sexuality, Age, and the Discourse of ‘Childhood Innocence’
dc.typeJournal Article
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