ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the intersections between sexism and childism through different forms of sexist and paternalistic violence. Sexist attitudes and discrimination target girls, children who identify as girls, and children who express their gender identity in non-binary ways. What are the ways that sexism and childism intersect and what have studies into sexism revealed about the oppressive functions of prejudiced discourses, of stereotyping, the ambivalence in prejudiced attitudes, and the discriminatory effects of biases in language? The discursive binary of emancipation versus protection in talks about children’s rights is problematized through the concepts of indirect age discrimination and substantive age equality.
