A Genealogy of Paedophilia: Age, Sexuality and Subjectivity

This study involves a cultural and historical analysis of the emergence of the discourse of paedophilia and the category of 'the paedophile'. It will deploy the axis of 'age', or, the distinction between children and adults, as the central analytic device with which to map the historical construction of modern sexual subjectivity in the West. The principal produce of this research will be a major book. It will be the first of its kind, anywhere in the world, to provide an historical account of paedophilia and the dialectical construction of child/adult sexuality from the nineteenth century to the present.