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American political and legal culture is uncomfortable with children's sexuality. While aware that sexual expression is a necessary part of human development, law rarely contemplates the complex ways in which it interacts with children and sexuality. Just as the law circumscribes children to a narrow range of roles¿either as entirely sexless beings or victims or objects of harmful adult sexual conduct¿so too does society tend to discount the notion of children as agents in the domain of sex and sexuality. Where a small body of rights related to sex has been carved out, the central question has been the degree to which children resemble adults, not necessarily whether minors themselves possess distinct and recognized rights related to sex, sexual expression, and sexuality.Children, Sexuality, and the Law reflects on some of the unique challenges that accompany children in the broader context of sex, exploring from diverse perspectives the ways in which children emerge in sexually related dimensions of law and contemporary life. It explores a broad range of issues, from the psychology of children as sexual beings to the legal treatment of adolescent consent. This work also explores whether and when children have a right to expression as understood within the First Amendment.The first volume of its kind, Children, Sexuality, and the Law goes beyond the traditional discourse of children as victims of adult sexual deviance by highlighting children as agents and rights holders in the realm of sex, sexuality, and sexual orientation.

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives¿precise moments when our rights and opportunities change¿when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures¿from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas¿Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship.

Examines how the United States' collective shame about its past has shaped the evolution of law and behavior. By examining policies and practices that affected the lives of groups that have been historically marginalized and oppressed, the author helps you draw persuasive connections between shame and its eventual legal manifestations.

Argues that obstacles to deepening our understanding of community/crime links arise in part because most scholars have overlooked four fundamental concerns: how conceptual frames depend on the geographic units and/or temporal units used; and how to establish the meaning of theoretically central ecological empirical indicators.

This work draws on a wide range of sources (movies, advertisements, sex confession magazines, letters, diaries, social hygienists, sex manuals and Freudian popularisers) to examine the ideology that has defined modern American manhood in sexual terms.

At one time, Asa Philip Randolph (1889-1979) was a household name. Featuring both established and emergent intellectual voices, this project seeks to avoid both hagiography and blanket condemnation alike.

Shortly after winning its independence in 1804, Haiti's leaders realized that if their nation was to survive, it needed to build strong diplomatic bonds with other nations. This book documents the rise and fall of the campaign for black emigration to Haiti, drawing on a variety of archival sources to share the rich voices of emigrants themselves.

Examines media representations of bees, such as children's books, films, and consumer culture, bringing to light the reciprocal way in which the bee and our idea of the bee inform one another.

Provides a step-by-step guide to help readers spot workaholism, understand it, and recover.

The lesbian and gay history has focused largely on the East and West coasts, and on urban settings such as New York and San Francisco. This title examines lesbian and gay experiences in Mississippi, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Tennessee.

Feeds our need to understand human ecology by explaining the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment.

*offers us a study of revolution from the viewpoint of the government rather than the revolutionary.

From September 2011 to September 2012, Ambassador Nasser Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar presided over the 66th session of the "world's parliament" - the United Nations General Assembly. This book looks inside the organization, assessing its strengths and weaknesses, its successes and struggles.

Tells the story of African American's battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony Liberia.

The first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.

Racial inequality might now be locked in place, unless policymakers immediately take drastic steps to dismantle this oppressive system.

Explores the reasons liberal Democrats have been overwhelmed by the conservative Right, and offers suggestions for strengthening the progressive movement.

Presents 455 inscribed pottery fragments, or ostraka, found during NYU's excavations at Amheida in the western desert of Egypt. The majority date to the Late Roman period (3rd to 4th century AD), a time of rapid social change in Egypt and the ancient Mediterranean generally.

It is hard to determine what dominated more newspaper headlines in America during the 1960s and early 70s: the Vietnam War or America's racial climate. This book aims to reveal the racial unrest in the Navy during the Vietnam War era, as well as the Navy's attempts to control it.

No American city's history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America's most privileged community of people of African descent. This book deals with this topic.

Breathes life into not just one or two of these women - but two dozen.

Cautions that the legacy of the grand experiment of the past forty years will be difficult to escape.

Traces the history of the freedom not to speak from the Middle Ages and Inquisition to the twentieth century and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. This title addresses the Civil War and Reconstruction loyalty oaths by Union Confederate soldiers, and the expulsion of Jehovah's Witnesses from schools for refusing to salute the flag.

A careful empirical analysis of how Homeland Security decided these asylum cases over a recent fourteen-year period.

Whether securitized neoliberalism effectively spells the end of political liberalism as we know it today.

This history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South.

Reveals how an almost forgotten festival became the most visible of American Jewish holidays.

Black women in marginalized communities is at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. This book shows that the threat of violence to black women has never been more serious, demonstrating how conservative legal, social, political and economic policies have impacted activism in the U.S.