The 'Age of Consent' Controversy: Age and Gender as Social Practice

Author:

Baker Carolyn1

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Behavioural Studies in Education University of New England

Abstract

This paper examines features of a controversy surrounding a recommendation to change 'age of consent' legislation in N.S.W. The use made of commonsense notions of age and gender relations as sense- making methods in organizing the popular defeat of the proposal is shown, casting participants in the controversy as practitioners of social structures. Competing adult discourses about young people are identified in the materials, and the study of such material is suggested as part of a comprehensive sociology of youth.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Sociology and Political Science

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