This book provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children's access to certain knowledge - understood as 'difficult knowledge' - and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood.

Kerry H. Robinson is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology, and a member of the Diversities, Ethics and Education Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

1. The Contradictory Nature of Children's Contemporary Lives 2. Difficult Knowledge and Subjugated Knowledge: Adult/Child Relations and the Regulation of Citizenship 3. Childhood Innocence, Moral Panic and Censorship: Constructing the Vulnerable Child 4. Schooling the Vulnerable Child: Power/Knowledge and the Regulation of the Adult Normative Citizen-Subject 5. Children's Sexual Subjectivities 6. Parents, Children's Sexual Subjectivity and the Transmission of Sexual Knowledge Across Generations 7. Critical Conversations - Building a Culture of Sexual Ethics Early in Life