The Age of Consent
Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship
By Matthew Waites
(Palgrave Macmillan, Paperback, 9780230237186, 296pp.)
Publication Date: September 29, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Children's Studies, Constitutional, Gender Studies
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Addressing the contentious issue of how children's sexual behavior should be regulated, 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.
MATTHEW WAITES is Lecturer in Sociology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published a variety of articles on young people's sexuality and lesbian, gay and bisexual politics in the UK, and is co-editor, with Jeffrey Weeks and Janet Holland, of Sexualities and Society: A Reader.
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