Whilst there many publications dealing with children from both legal and theoretical perspectives, the child is persistently represented and discussed as a gender neutral or pre-gender and pre-sexual object. This text uses feminist perspectives to explore more rarely addressed aspects of childhood.

This work, part of the Lecture Notes series, offers useful information on child law. It seeks to provide sufficiently comprehensive coverage of the major components of a child law syllabus. The workings of the Children Act 1989 and its attendant case law figures prominently in the book.

Vols. 65-96 include "Central law journal's international law list."

This book examines how developing law and policies in England and Wales simultaneously promote and undermine children's rights.