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In this chapter, Tsaliki offers an introduction to the debate on children’s sexualization. She sees sexualization as enveloping an intricate array of issues that bring together popular culture, consumption, sexuality, selfhood and childhood. In this, she wants to push beyond the dominant—and fashionable—preconceptions about ‘the risks of childhood’, which trickle down and feed the public debate about sexualization. Tsaliki explains how she adheres to a Foucauldian understanding of the debate about the sexualization of children as she tries to uncover the variety of factors and conditions that allowed the sexualization discourse to emerge and become so powerful today. In this way, she wants to make sense of how current ‘truths’ have come into existence and are maintained, and what power relations are carried by them. Tsaliki then provides a brief chapter-by-chapter breakdown.
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Tsaliki, L. (2016). Introduction. In: Children and the Politics of Sexuality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-03341-3_1
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