“[C]hildhood and femininity are deeply co-constructed and intersecting categories: women are infantilized and children are feminized, female youth and sexual innocence are prized while childhood innocence is eroticized, and women are historically treated as legal and social minors subject to paternal power.”— Tyler Bickford, “Tween Intimacy” in WSQ’s Child (69)
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