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What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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What About the Children! Masculinities, Sexualities and Hegemony (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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What About the Children! takes up the important task of examining
the role of hegemonic masculinities in propping up a normative
social order in which children are constructed as the property of
adults. By examining adult-child relations in the context of a wide
range of family forms and social contexts, the book provides some
hard answers to questions relating to what exactly are the best
interests of children, and how they should be determined. The book
responds by suggesting that there is a pressing need to recognise
the capacity of children to voice their own desires and needs, and
that in failing to recognise this all adults (and men in
particular) only serve to further perpetuate a possessive logic
that, at least in part, gives rise to the mistreatment or abuse of
children. Covering topics such as the experiences of foster
fathers, gay adoptive fathers and sperm donors, and exploring
phenomena such as books on raising boys and movies about gay
parents, the book offers important insights as to the operations of
hegemony in the lives of a broad range of men. Importantly, the
book moves beyond simply identifying the operations of hegemony in
relation to possessive investments in children, and goes on to
propose a `non-indifferent' approach to understanding adult-child
relations that at its heart examines the operations of power that
produce children as supposedly docile subjects (and only certain
adults as capable of caring for them). As a result, the book makes
a significant contribution to setting an alternative agenda for
child protection both within Australia and internationally by
asking the question `protection for whom?'.
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