Download or read book Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity written by R. Egan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking work provides the first history of ideas about the sexual child in modernity. Beginning with twenty-first century panics about sexualization, the authors address why the sexual child excites such powerful emotions in the Anglophone west.