Introduction : throwing the baby out with the bathwater? : traces and generative connections between feminist post-structuralism and feminist new materialism in childhood studies

In the spirit of Barad's insistence of the indebtedness and entanglements to past and future, this collaborative feminist book project sets out to explore the ways in which feminist researchers have approached the study of children, childhood, gender and sexualities over the past thirty years or so. There is a growing body of feminist scholarship that takes up new materialist approaches, and our concern is to trace how this departs from, and is continuous with, the important post-structuralist work that so profoundly shifted debates, practices and policies around gender and sexualities in childhood.