Steven Angelides

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Steven Angelides is a historian, author and academic at La Trobe University. [1] [2] He also serves as honorary senior research fellow at Macquarie University. [3] He is the author of A History of Bisexuality (2001) and The Fear of Child Sexuality (2019).

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Career

Angelides published A History of Bisexuality in 2001. The book studies the ways that bisexuality has been represented throughout the modern period of Western civilization, particularly through the lenses of psychoanalysis and queer theory. [2]

In 2019, he published The Fear of Child Sexuality: Young People, Sex, and Agency under the University of Chicago Press. The book uses case studies of sex scandals in the United States and Australia to examine how they shaped the concept of "innocence" and other common tropes associated with childhood. [4] [5]

Some of Angelides' works have been published by Nordic scientific journal Lambda Nordica. [6]

Reception

University of California researcher Jonathan Alexander and University of Puerto Rico academic Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio wrote in their review of The History of Bisexuality that the book "offers a much-needed historical and theoretical intervention in our thinking about the history of what the modern era knows as sexuality". [7]

University of Iowa professor Ellen Lewin said that Angelides' book on bisexuality "tells us a lot about the anxieties and uncertainties that afflict sexuality researchers, but relatively little about bisexuality itself". [8]

University of London professor Joanna Bourke said in her book review that Fear of Child Sexuality was "particularly enlightening" due to its focus on the "dramatic shifts in the responses of adults to child sexuality over the 20th and 21st centuries". She also said that it was unfortunate how Angelides would recurrently use the term "child" in an ambiguous manner throughout the book, often to refer to White, middle-class male adolescents. [1]

Works

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Bourke, J. (2019). "Book review: The fear of child sexuality: Young people, sex and agency, by Steven Angelides". Times Higher Education Supplement: 332–348.
  2. 1 2 3 Arthur, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik (2004). "Book Review: A History of Bisexuality. By Steven Angelides. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2001, 279 pp., $20.00 (paper) $50.00 (cloth)". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 33 (2): 170–172. doi:10.1023/B:ASEB.0000014609.45763.15.
  3. ↑ "Steven Angelides". University of Chicago Press. Retrieved 2024-06-23.
  4. 1 2 Conner, Rachel (2021). "Book review: Steven Angelides: The Fear of Child Sexuality: Young People, Sex, and Agency: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2019, 234 pp, ISBN 9780226648460". Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 50 (7): 1478–1481. doi:10.1007/s10964-021-01438-8.
  5. 1 2 Jamie, O’Quinn (2021). "Book Review. Steven Angelides. Fear of Child Sexuality: Young People, Sex and Agency". Sexualities . 24 (4): 694–696. doi:10.1177/1363460720944593.
  6. ↑ Sparrman, Anna (2013). "Queering the Sexual Child?". NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 21 (1): 79–83. doi:10.1080/08038740.2012.755769.
  7. 1 2 Alexander, Jonathan; Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Serena (2009-11-13). "We are Everywhere: A Fiveway Review of A History of Bisexuality, Open, Becoming Visible, Bisexual Spaces , and Look Both Ways". Journal of Bisexuality. 9 (3–4): 461–476. doi:10.1080/15299710903316695.
  8. 1 2 Lewin, Ellen (2004). "(Book review) A History of Bisexuality". American Anthropologist. 106 (2): 401. JSTOR   3566982.
  9. ↑ Davey, Claire G. (2021). "Book review. The Fear of Child Sexuality: Young People, Sex and Agency". Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities. 2 (2): 107. doi:10.3167/jbsm.2021.020207.
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