HUMA 1970 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Secondary Sex Characteristic

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1970
• Professor: cherylcowdy

Document Summary

Philippe aries - first to claim - that the contemporary concept of childhood in western. Europe has gradually taken shape over the past five centuries. It is a construct of bourgeois sentimentality and awesome as part of early modern and modern identity formation amongst the rising middle classes. This evolution of childhood is observance through shifts in the age - and social strata- appropriate positioning of games, clothing and education. Plots the movement of the bodily control and regulation of children as a point of increasingly specific differentiation of the child (as non-adult) from the adult. Argues that the major physical differentiations between life stages at that time were, respectively: between the infant in the cradle, the neophyte adult, and the ages and the bedridden infirm, who have returned to an infant like state. Distinctive differences between a child and an adult: Yet to develop the secondary sexual characteristics associated with their gender.