POLS 3710 Lecture Notes - Child Prostitution, Parens Patriae, Feminist Theory
Document Summary
The politics of generation and the regulation of young people"s sexuality: Understanding contemporary age of consent legislation in liberal. Contextually sexual offense law expose unequal relations of gender leads to physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Strangers danger vs contextualizing sexual exploitation within the family. Authorities find focusing on the child more palatable. Common sense arguments about the ideal heteronormative family, childhood in relation to adulthood (generation) Provides the powerful symbolic material and political currency for reaching political goals. Demographics is key census, economy, birth, death family structure. Role of political authority is performed in conjunction with other diverse authorities in governing populations. Techniques, practices and rationalities that emerge are not confined to specific projects but diffuse. Also instrumentalized ideals of family patriarchal politicians. Governing bring about reinforcement of heteronormative family (even those not interested in reinforcing) Prudent and calculative relation to the future. Makes liberal freedom possible (rose and miller 1992; rose et al 2006)