Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.

First book to consider children and sexuality over the long durée, from the Greeks to the twentieth century

Preface Introduction; G.Rousseau PART I: THE EARLY ANCIENT AND MODERN WORLD The Ancient World: Juvenile Crime, Aggression and Abuse in Fifth-century Athens: a Case Study; M.Vickers & D.Nash Briggs Responses; J.Crawley Quinn ; A.Moreno The Medieval World: Incest between Adults and Children in the Medieval World; E.Archibald Response; E.Dutton The Renaissance World: Under-Age Sexuality in Reformation Geneva; W.G.Naphy Responses; N.S.Davidson ; T.Betteridge The Eighteenth Century: Privilege, Power and Sexual Abuse in Georgian Oxford; G.Rousseau Response; T.Hitchcock PART II: VICTORIANS AND EDWARDIANS Victorian Aesthetes: 'You have made me tear the veil from those most secret feelings': Arcadian Adolescents and Same-sex Scandals in Mid-Victorian Oxford; G.Rousseau Response; K.D.Watson Victorian Platonists: Platonic Dons, Adolescent Bodies: Benjamin Jowett, John Addington Symonds, Walter Pater; S.Evangelista Response; R.Dellamora Victorian Women: Victorian Girlhood: Eroticizing the Maternal, Maternalizing the Erotic: Same-sex Relations between Girls, c. 1880-1920; A.Hennegan Response; J.McDonagh The Victorians and Photography: The Nineteenth-Century Photographic Likeness and the Body of the Child; L.Smith Response; L.Gasquet Edwardians and Empire: At Once A-sexual and Anal: Baden-Powell and the Boy Scouts; E.Boehmer Response; M.Harrison PART III: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL VIEW Child Sexual Abuse - an Anthropological Perspective; H.Montgomery