The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
Childhood and Adolescence

Brings together top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates in the field.

Sharon Lamb (Edited by), Jen Gilbert (Edited by)

9781107190719, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 20 December 2018

602 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 tables
25.3 x 17.8 x 3.5 cm, 1.2 kg

'This comprehensive and innovative Handbook will rapidly become the standard reference in the field, as it smoothly engages the complexities of interdisciplinary academia along with rapidly changing cultural contexts. The editors gave their contributors the freedom to define 'sexual development' from their own point of view, which has produced a uniquely rich and readable tapestry of topics and perspectives.' Leonore Tiefer, Founder, New View Campaign

The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development is a carefully curated conversation that brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates in the field. The Handbook is organized around three foundational questions: first, what is sexual development? Second, how do we study sexual development? And third, what roles might adults - including the institutions of the media, family, and education - play in the sexual development of children and adolescents? As the first of its kind, this collection integrates work from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, education, cultural studies, and allied fields. Writing from different disciplinary traditions and about a range of international contexts, the contributors explore the role of sexuality in children's and adolescents' everyday experiences of identity, family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media.

Introduction: interdisciplinary approaches to sexual development in childhood and adolescence Jen Gilbert and Sharon Lamb
Part I. What is Sexual Development?: Section 1. Children: 1. Are children sexual? Who, what, where, when and how? Sharon Lamb, Lindsay White and Aleksandra Plocha
2. Towards a central theory of childhood sexuality: a relational approach Allison Moore
3. A sociological exploration of childhood sexuality: a discursive analysis of parents' and children's perspectives Kerry H. Robinson and Cristyn Davies
4. Not innocent, but vulnerable: an approach to childhood innocence Lucie Jarkovská and Sharon Lamb
5. The dynamic expression of sexual-minority and gender-minority experience during childhood and adolescence Lisa M. Diamond
6. Sexual embodiment in girlhood and beyond: young migrant and refugee women's discourse of silence, secrecy and shame Jane Ussher, Alex Hawkey and Janette Perz
Section 2. Adolescence: 7. The diversity of adolescent male sexuality John DeLamater
8. Developmental trajectories and milestones of sexual-minority youth Ritch C. Savin-Williams
9. Bad choices: how neoliberal ideology disguises social injustice in the sexual lives of youth Laina Y. Bay-Cheng
10. From tightrope to minefield: how the sexual double standard 'lives' in adolescent girls' and young women's lives Deborah L. Tolman and Jennifer F. Chmielewski
11. Gender, class, and campus sexual cultures: white first-generation college students and the transition to college Amy C. Wilkins and Aubrey Limburg
12. Yellow fever and yellow impotence: the polarity of Asian American sexuality Rosalind Chou and Brittany Taylor
13. Conceptualizing sexuality in research about trans youth Julia Sinclair-Palm
Part II. How Do We Study Sexual Development?: 14. Critical methods for studying adolescent sexuality Sarah I. McClelland
15. Loving possibilities in studies of sexuality education and youth Jessica Fields and Lorena Garcia
16. Difficulties in the study, research, and pedagogy of sexuality Deborah P. Britzman
17. Numbers and stories: bridging methods to advance social change Stephen T. Russell
18. Doing it: participatory visual methodologies and youth sexuality research Katie MacEntee and Sarah Flicker
19. Research under surveillance: sexuality and gender-based research with children in South Africa Deevia Bhana
Part III. Media, Family, Education: What Roles Might Adults Play?: Section 1. Media: 20. Entertainment media's role in the sexual socialization of Western youth: a review of research from 2000–17 L. Monique Ward, Jessica Moorman and Petal Grower
21. Adventure, intimacy, identity and knowledge: exploring how social media are shaping and transforming youth sexuality Marijke Naezer and Jessica Ringrose
22. A sociological/psychological model for understanding pornography and adolescent sexual behavior Jennifer A. Johnson and Ana J. Bridges
23. Young people, pornography and gendered sexual practices Maddy Coy and Miranda A. H. Horvath
Section 2. Family: 24. Puberty as bio-psycho-social enfolding: mothers' accounts of their early-developing daughters Celia Roberts
25. Stolen childhood: understanding sexualisation of young girls through 'child marriage' in Zimbabwe Sandra Bhatasara, Manase K. Chiweshe and Nelson Muparamoto
Section 3. Education: 26. The fertile, thorny and enduring role of desire and pleasure in sexuality education Sarah Garland-Levett and Louisa Allen
27. Norm-critical sex education in Sweden: tensions within a progressive approach Anna Bredström, Eva Bolander and Jenny Bengtsson
28. Robot babies, young people and pregnancy prevention: alternative imaginings of sexual futures Mary Lou Rasmussen and Aoife Neary.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], Psychology: emotions [JMQ], Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology [JMM], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychology of gender [JMG], Child & developmental psychology [JMC], Sociology: sexual relations [JHBK5], Gender studies, gender groups [JFSJ]