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Carolyn Cocca
Carolyn Cocca is Professor in the Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury, USA. She is the author of Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States (2004), Adolescent Sexuality (2006), and various articles and book chapters about gender and superheroes.
These two influential books take a reasonable, grounded, and evidence-based approach towards adolescent sexuality, taking account of the perspectives and agency of young people themselves. Cocca has also reviewed Matthew Waites' influential book The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality, and Citizenship (2005), and had her 2004 Jailbait book reviewed by professional historian Amanda H. Littauer, who would later publish a seminal article on Intergenerational Lesbianism.
See also
- Cocca, C. (2002). The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws: Adoption and Reinvention of Morality Policy in the States, 1971-1999, Polity 35(1):51-72.
- Cocca, C. (2002). From "Welfare Queen" to "Exploited Teen": Welfare Dependency, Statutory Rape, and Moral Panic, NWSA Journal 14(2):56-79.
