Joanne Faulkner’s recently published book on childhood, The Importance of Being Innocent, was the topic of an Australian Broadcasting Corporation talk show segment today. You can here the interview here; here is the url directly:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2011/02/lms_20110224_0919.mp3
A chunk of the book can be read at the Cambridge UP website:
http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521146975
Dr. Faulkner is a member of the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada team. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the University of New South Wales, and formerly held a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alberta.