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Erotic Attunement
Cristina L. H. Traina
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Description for Erotic Attunement
Hardcover. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, this title probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM1; JFM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children - in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, "Erotic Attunement" probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is ... Read more
Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children - in nearly any context. Though our society has moved toward increasingly strict enforcement of this taboo, studies have shown that young children need regular human contact, and the benefits of breastfeeding have been widely extolled. Exploring the complicated history of love, desire, gender, sexuality, parenthood, and inequality, "Erotic Attunement" probes the disquieting issue of how we can draw a clear line between natural affection toward children and perverse exploitation of them. Cristina L. H. Traina demonstrates that we cannot determine what is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226811383
SKU
V9780226811383
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99-15
About Cristina L. H. Traina
Cristina L. H. Traina is associate professor of religious studies at Northwestern University and the author of Feminist Ethics and Natural Law: The End of the Anathemas.
Reviews for Erotic Attunement
"Erotic Attunement is an interdisciplinary tour de force and both a compelling read for nonprofessionals and a basic reference for religious ethicists. Traina has mastered an impressive, exhaustive range of research that took her not only back to Augustine, Aquinas, Aristotle, and Plato, but also into recent studies on sex and the brain, developmental psychology, neonatology, and sex offenders and ... Read more