The Age of Consent
Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship
By Matthew Waites
(Palgrave Macmillan, Hardcover, 9781403921734, 296pp.)
Publication Date: September 29, 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (September 29, 2009)
Categories: Constitutional
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Description
This book analyzes the development of age of consent laws in the UK from the nineteenth century to the present, in international perspective. The analysis, informed by contemporary perspectives in social theory on gender, sexuality, youth and childhood, focuses upon changing understandings of citizenship embodied in the law.
About the Author
Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Sheffield Hallam University.
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