The age of consent; young people, sexuality and citizenship.
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The age of consent; young people, sexuality and citizenship.
Waites, Matthew Matthew
one of the twelve disciples. [N.T.: Matthew]
See : Evangelism .
Palgrave Macmillan
2005
285 pages
$90.00
Hardcover
KD7975
Primarily focused on the UK, Waites (sociology, Sheffield Hallam Sheffield Hallam can refer to: - Sheffield Hallam University, a modern university in Northern England
- Sheffield Hallam, a parliamentary constituency in Sheffield
U.) examines historical changes in rationales for age of sexual consent
laws. She addresses such issues as the relationship between public
attitudes and understandings of the concept of "age of
consent" and actual legal frameworks, the influence of
understandings of childhood, youth, and adulthood on changing age of
consent laws, the impact of cultural understandings of gender and
gendered power relationships on the structure of the laws, the status of
same-sex relationships same-sex relationship n → gleichgeschlechtliche Beziehung f in relation to the laws, and the relationship
between the age of consent and demands by social movements This is a partial list of social movements. - Abahlali baseMjondolo - South African shack dwellers' movement
- Animal rights movement
- Anti-consumerism
- Anti-war movement
- Anti-globalization movement
- Brights movement
- Civil rights movement
for a more
democratic and consensual CONSENSUAL, civil law. This word is applied to designate one species of contract known in the civil laws; these contracts derive their name from the consent of the parties which is required in their formation, as they cannot exist without such consent.
2. sexual morality. Although his focus is on the
UK, Waites does bring in some international evidence for comparative
perspective.
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