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- Title
Ambiguity, Children, Representation, and Sexuality.
- Authors
LUMBY, Catharine
- Abstract
The article discusses historical and contemporary scholarly debates about the ambiguous representation of children and concerns about child sexualization. The author examines images taken by Victorian era photographers such as Charles Dodgson and Julia Cameron to attempt to answer questions about how the child is focused and how the children being photographed return the gaze of adult photographers. Drawing on the work of American literary critic James Kincaid, the author discusses the alleged sexualization of children through photography and attempts to answer questions relating to what attracts people to images of children, what people find disturbing about those images and attractions, and the ambiguity inherent in the boundaries between adulthood and childhood.
- Subjects
CHILDREN &; sex; AMBIGUITY; KINCAID, James; CAMERON, Julia B., 1948-; CARROLL, Lewis, 1832-1898; PHOTOGRAPHY of children; ADULT-child relationships; COMMERCIAL photography; BINARY principle (Linguistics); PHOTOGRAPHERS; PHILOSOPHY
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.1673