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Ellen Herman

Department of History, University of Oregon


 

HIST 365, Winter 2004, Week 5
Outline

Cultural Childhood: The Notion of Innocence

1. What are pictures? What do they do? What don’t they do?

2. Childhood Innocence as Cultural Ideal and Historical Development

3. Pictures of Childhood Today

4. The Debate about Visual Sexualization: From Child Pornography to Sexual Abuse

5. The Knowing Child