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Childhood, age of consent and moral regulation in Canada and the UK

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This paper analyses the resurgent regulation of young people's sexuality in Canada and the UK and examines notions of childhood in relation to adulthood, referred to by the term 'generation', as they are portrayed in the political process. In both cases, the political manipulation of the identity of childhood in relation to adulthood that is both gendered and generational is an important enabling factor, although regulation takes place within a specific context for each. Moreover, this politics of generation reaches beyond the specific regulation of young people's sexuality through notions of hegemonic femininity and masculinity and the idealization of the heterosexual family in a far more pervasive regulation of society in general.

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Contemporary Politics

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United Kingdom : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group., 2010

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English

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13569775

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Volume 16, Issue 3 September 2010 , pages 227 - 24

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Gender
Childhood
Moral regulation

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