CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Pedophilia, Sexting, James R. Kincaid
27 Oct 2017
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Lecture 2: beyond innocence: discourse analysis, histories of childhood, and critical. Discourse analysis: a major discourse about children is innocence innocence can harm children. Innocent children need your help : we"re emotionally touched by childhood innocence, that"s what reading"s about: how adults do politics in name of childhood innocence. If someone takes discourse produced, it has a real impact on a child. What are children doing when they"re playing: children live inside our ideas of childhood. James kincaid: study of pedophilia/pedophiles, all of us are trapped inside a vast cultural mechanism that keeps the erotic child constantly before us, the more innocent we make children, the more they become perfect victim. If we say kids can"t stand up for themselves, then that makes them better victims if we don"t teach kids agency and consent, difficult things and lessons, they lack knowledge to protect themselves. It"s easier to say one person is a pedo, versus say that entire culture eroticizes pedophilia.
