Some may find the following article interesting in regards to the current
Poke-thread. Like Paul's reference to *Daddy's Girl* the
protoviolent-protosexual child is very much situated within a class
analysis.
http://www.triangle.co.uk/ciec/01/ciec-01_1.htm
Violent Boys and Precocious Girls: regulating childhood at the end of the
millennium
VALERIE WALKERDINE University of Western Sydney, Australia
This article explores the regulation of childhood at the end of the
twentieth century by focusing on the figures of the proto-violent boy and
the proto-sexual girl in relation to the figure of the dangerous and
predatory male adult. These figures, who represent the Other to normal
childhood, are explored with respect to popular culture, examining computer
games on the one hand and popular song and dance on the other. It is argued
that conceptions of childhood for the next century need to engage with the
specificity of the sites in which subjectivities are constituted and to move
away from the simple dichotomies of normality and pathology.
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