Addressing the contentious issue of how children's sexual behaviour should beregulated, this book explores the history of age of consent laws in the UK and provides a global comparative survey of age of consent laws and relevant international human rights law. INDICE: Acknowledgements - 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 - Bibliography - Notes - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23718-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés