Gail Hawkes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3649355 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Gail Hawkes |
| NOMBRES | Gail |
| APELLIDO | Hawkes |
| FIRMA | HAWKES G |
| AFILIACIONES | University of New England |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9073-5777 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 210 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The criminalization of sexuality
‘Sexuality’ is a fluid concept that has varied significantly across time and place. It is an aspect of social identity that means many different things to different people. The criminality of so-called deviant sexual behaviour is also socially constructed. The result is dissonance between the modern democratic notions of freedom of expression and current social sensibilities. This essay summarizes views toward acceptable sexual conduct throughout…
Hidden boundaries and shared meanings
This paper examines the role of the research process in shaping the construction of knowledge about sensitive topics in in-depth interviews particularly with regard to researcher identity and cultural influences or norms. We argue that these influences shape all aspects of the research process and that researchers will benefit from reflecting upon them when planning, undertaking and interpreting qualitative studies. Drawing on an empirical study …
Plastic Sexuality
The concept of plastic sexuality was developed theoretically by Anthony Giddens. “Plastic” refers to the malleability of erotic expression, in terms of both individual choice and frameworks of social norms. Flexible sexuality is argued to have emerged in the context of the social changes in late modernity and postmodernity. It stands in contrast to the features associated with modernist sexuality, conceptualized as fixed, by biology or by social …
Sex, desire and pleasure
Older age is often associated with asexuality. That is, older individuals are not viewed as desiring of sex, nor as sexually desirable to others. Broader social and cultural norms that downplay women's sexual desire and agency further compound these phenomena. Whether this popular image accurately reflects older women's sexual desires, behaviour and capacity to experience pleasure is unclear. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 43 partnere…
Sex and the (older) single girl
Disavowal and foundational fantasies
Archival data offers rich source material for examining the complicated, and often paradoxical, deployment of the sexual child within protection literature crafted in the Anglophone West during the early 19th century. Drawing on a psychosocial framework, I analyze the affective and ideological subtext of social purity narratives in order to understand how and why it came to feel so natural for reformers and their primary audience – middle-class p…
Introduction
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive persp…
Engaging with the Bailey Review
This article reproduces and discusses a series of blog posts posted by academics in anticipation of the report on commercialisation, sexualisation and childhood, ‘Letting Children Be Children’ by Reg Bailey for the UK Department of Education in June 2011. The article discusses the difficulty of ‘translating’ scholarly work for the public in a context where ‘impact’ is increasingly important and the challenges that academics face in finding new wa…
The problem with protection
Drawing on historical and contemporary reform narratives, we highlight the implications of and problems with the discourse of protection and its conceptualization of childhood sexuality. Within the reform materials discussed, the child's sexuality is constructed as the result of a dangerous and socially unacceptable outside stimulus, and as a result, any realization of subjective sexual expression is rendered abhorrent and in need of adult interv…
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935
Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper con…
Landscapes of Erotophobia
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects
Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements
In ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’, Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze warn parents and policy makers of the threat to the physical, emotional and cognitive development o
Developing the Sexual Child
The idea that a child should not have sexual interests and experiences is fast being supplanted by the knowledge that he does have them; that they are an expression of perfectly normal, healthy energies, and that while it is necessary to gain control over them, they should not be forcibly suppressed" (Renz & Renz 1935: 92
Imperiled and Perilous
This article explores the dominant cultural constructions of the child and its sexuality that emerged over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Anglophone west. Examining how the child and its sexuality were constructed within reform and institutional discourse, we illuminate the social and political implications of frameworks of protection. We argue that discourses of protection foreclose the possibility of the sexual agency…
Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity
Drawing on primary materials from the United States, England and Australia, we explore the complex and contradictory manner in which the sexual child and innocence was constructed and made intelligible within social purity discourses in the mid 19th to early 20th century. The sexuality of the child was paradoxically conceptualized as a ubiquitous and boundless erotic force and as a pliable site for pedagogical intervention. We contend that the di…
Dressing-up - cross-dressing and sexual dissonance
The use of dress as a signifier of gender category—of membership of the male or female sex—is familiar and for the most part taken for granted. What signifiers are used to make this fundamental distinction may vary over time and with cultural difference but there is a consistency in the deployment of dress for this purpose. The use of such dress codes are, in contemporary Western culture, mapped on to expressions of sexual preference in the form …
Responsibility and Irresponsibility
The covert regulatory content of medical practice has been well documented. This paper presents the tensions inherent in family planning practice through a deconstruction of the views of practitioners in the field. It argues that behind the untroubled clinical appearance of contemporary family planning clinics, and despite its acceptance by the medical profession, there persist many of the 'old' concerns about the state-sanctioned provision of co…
Hypoplastic Left Ventricle and Aortic Atresia in a Calf
This book is an overview of key debates, research findings and theories in the area of sex and sexuality. Controversial issues are discussed in an informative and fair, balanced manner. With its sociological orientation, Perspectives in Human Sexuality employs a range of empirical and theoretical resources, including those which utilise scientific, medical, historical and ethical knowledge in order to elucidate the critical issues affecting conte…
The problem with protection
Drawing on historical and contemporary reform narratives, we highlight the implications of and problems with the discourse of protection and its conceptualization of childhood sexuality. Within the reform materials discussed, the child's sexuality is constructed as the result of a dangerous and socially unacceptable outside stimulus, and as a result, any realization of subjective sexual expression is rendered abhorrent and in need of adult interv…
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects
Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements
In ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’, Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze warn parents and policy makers of the threat to the physical, emotional and cognitive development o
Sex and the (older) single girl
Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity
Drawing on primary materials from the United States, England and Australia, we explore the complex and contradictory manner in which the sexual child and innocence was constructed and made intelligible within social purity discourses in the mid 19th to early 20th century. The sexuality of the child was paradoxically conceptualized as a ubiquitous and boundless erotic force and as a pliable site for pedagogical intervention. We contend that the di…
Imperiled and Perilous
This article explores the dominant cultural constructions of the child and its sexuality that emerged over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Anglophone west. Examining how the child and its sexuality were constructed within reform and institutional discourse, we illuminate the social and political implications of frameworks of protection. We argue that discourses of protection foreclose the possibility of the sexual agency…
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive persp…
Responsibility and Irresponsibility
The covert regulatory content of medical practice has been well documented. This paper presents the tensions inherent in family planning practice through a deconstruction of the views of practitioners in the field. It argues that behind the untroubled clinical appearance of contemporary family planning clinics, and despite its acceptance by the medical profession, there persist many of the 'old' concerns about the state-sanctioned provision of co…
Landscapes of Erotophobia
Developing the Sexual Child
The idea that a child should not have sexual interests and experiences is fast being supplanted by the knowledge that he does have them; that they are an expression of perfectly normal, healthy energies, and that while it is necessary to gain control over them, they should not be forcibly suppressed" (Renz & Renz 1935: 92
Dressing-up - cross-dressing and sexual dissonance
The use of dress as a signifier of gender category—of membership of the male or female sex—is familiar and for the most part taken for granted. What signifiers are used to make this fundamental distinction may vary over time and with cultural difference but there is a consistency in the deployment of dress for this purpose. The use of such dress codes are, in contemporary Western culture, mapped on to expressions of sexual preference in the form …
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935
Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper con…
Hidden boundaries and shared meanings
This paper examines the role of the research process in shaping the construction of knowledge about sensitive topics in in-depth interviews particularly with regard to researcher identity and cultural influences or norms. We argue that these influences shape all aspects of the research process and that researchers will benefit from reflecting upon them when planning, undertaking and interpreting qualitative studies. Drawing on an empirical study …
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects
Hypoplastic Left Ventricle and Aortic Atresia in a Calf
This book is an overview of key debates, research findings and theories in the area of sex and sexuality. Controversial issues are discussed in an informative and fair, balanced manner. With its sociological orientation, Perspectives in Human Sexuality employs a range of empirical and theoretical resources, including those which utilise scientific, medical, historical and ethical knowledge in order to elucidate the critical issues affecting conte…
Dressing-up - cross-dressing and sexual dissonance
The use of dress as a signifier of gender category—of membership of the male or female sex—is familiar and for the most part taken for granted. What signifiers are used to make this fundamental distinction may vary over time and with cultural difference but there is a consistency in the deployment of dress for this purpose. The use of such dress codes are, in contemporary Western culture, mapped on to expressions of sexual preference in the form …
Responsibility and Irresponsibility
The covert regulatory content of medical practice has been well documented. This paper presents the tensions inherent in family planning practice through a deconstruction of the views of practitioners in the field. It argues that behind the untroubled clinical appearance of contemporary family planning clinics, and despite its acceptance by the medical profession, there persist many of the 'old' concerns about the state-sanctioned provision of co…
Producing the Prurient through the Pedagogy of Purity
Drawing on primary materials from the United States, England and Australia, we explore the complex and contradictory manner in which the sexual child and innocence was constructed and made intelligible within social purity discourses in the mid 19th to early 20th century. The sexuality of the child was paradoxically conceptualized as a ubiquitous and boundless erotic force and as a pliable site for pedagogical intervention. We contend that the di…
Landscapes of Erotophobia
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects
Endangered Girls and Incendiary Objects
Girls, Sexuality and the Strange Carnalities of Advertisements
In ‘Corporate Paedophilia: Sexualisation of Children in Australia’, Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze warn parents and policy makers of the threat to the physical, emotional and cognitive development o
Developing the Sexual Child
The idea that a child should not have sexual interests and experiences is fast being supplanted by the knowledge that he does have them; that they are an expression of perfectly normal, healthy energies, and that while it is necessary to gain control over them, they should not be forcibly suppressed" (Renz & Renz 1935: 92
Imperiled and Perilous
This article explores the dominant cultural constructions of the child and its sexuality that emerged over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth century in the Anglophone west. Examining how the child and its sexuality were constructed within reform and institutional discourse, we illuminate the social and political implications of frameworks of protection. We argue that discourses of protection foreclose the possibility of the sexual agency…
The problem with protection
Drawing on historical and contemporary reform narratives, we highlight the implications of and problems with the discourse of protection and its conceptualization of childhood sexuality. Within the reform materials discussed, the child's sexuality is constructed as the result of a dangerous and socially unacceptable outside stimulus, and as a result, any realization of subjective sexual expression is rendered abhorrent and in need of adult interv…
Childhood Sexuality, Normalization and the Social Hygiene Movement in the Anglophone West, 1900-1935
Analysing primary materials from the USA, England and Australia, this paper explores the discursive production of childhood sexuality within the social hygiene movement. Attempts to shape and tame 'the native capacities' of impoverished children into socially acceptable, monogamous heterosexuals functioned as a central tenet of sexual hygiene reform. Habituation provided the pedagogical entry point for hygiene's normalising project. The paper con…
Engaging with the Bailey Review
This article reproduces and discusses a series of blog posts posted by academics in anticipation of the report on commercialisation, sexualisation and childhood, ‘Letting Children Be Children’ by Reg Bailey for the UK Department of Education in June 2011. The article discusses the difficulty of ‘translating’ scholarly work for the public in a context where ‘impact’ is increasingly important and the challenges that academics face in finding new wa…
Sexuality, youth and the perils of endangered innocence
Popular discourses on the problem of sexualisation are beset by emotively charged rhetoric that all-too-often promotes a visceral and affective response as opposed to reasoned and nuanced examination. Drawing on materials from the Social Purity Movement (1860–1910) as well as contemporary anti-sexualisation literature, this article argues that a historical-situated perspective may help authors, activists and advocates offer a more reflexive persp…
Disavowal and foundational fantasies
Archival data offers rich source material for examining the complicated, and often paradoxical, deployment of the sexual child within protection literature crafted in the Anglophone West during the early 19th century. Drawing on a psychosocial framework, I analyze the affective and ideological subtext of social purity narratives in order to understand how and why it came to feel so natural for reformers and their primary audience – middle-class p…
Introduction
Sex, desire and pleasure
Older age is often associated with asexuality. That is, older individuals are not viewed as desiring of sex, nor as sexually desirable to others. Broader social and cultural norms that downplay women's sexual desire and agency further compound these phenomena. Whether this popular image accurately reflects older women's sexual desires, behaviour and capacity to experience pleasure is unclear. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 43 partnere…
Sex and the (older) single girl
The criminalization of sexuality
‘Sexuality’ is a fluid concept that has varied significantly across time and place. It is an aspect of social identity that means many different things to different people. The criminality of so-called deviant sexual behaviour is also socially constructed. The result is dissonance between the modern democratic notions of freedom of expression and current social sensibilities. This essay summarizes views toward acceptable sexual conduct throughout…
Hidden boundaries and shared meanings
This paper examines the role of the research process in shaping the construction of knowledge about sensitive topics in in-depth interviews particularly with regard to researcher identity and cultural influences or norms. We argue that these influences shape all aspects of the research process and that researchers will benefit from reflecting upon them when planning, undertaking and interpreting qualitative studies. Drawing on an empirical study …
Plastic Sexuality
The concept of plastic sexuality was developed theoretically by Anthony Giddens. “Plastic” refers to the malleability of erotic expression, in terms of both individual choice and frameworks of social norms. Flexible sexuality is argued to have emerged in the context of the social changes in late modernity and postmodernity. It stands in contrast to the features associated with modernist sexuality, conceptualized as fixed, by biology or by social …
Sociology (21 obras) · Gender Studies (15 obras) · Human sexuality (15 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (6 obras) · Law (6 obras)