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Erotic innocence : the culture of child molesting

Author: James R Kincaid
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Explores contemporary America's preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children...Examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetished, and eroticized in everyday culture."--Jacket.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Kincaid, James R. (James Russell)
Erotic innocence.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1998
(OCoLC)654228449
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James R Kincaid
ISBN: 0822321777 9780822321774 0822321939 9780822321934
OCLC Number: 37806117
Description: xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Trapped in the story --
Inventing the child-and sexuality --
Myths of protection, acts of exposure --
Home alone with the adorable child --
Resenting children --
Myths, legends, folktales, and lies --
The trials: believing the children --
Accusing the stars: perversion among the prominent --
Recovered memory --
The backlash, the counterbacklash, the reaction, the resurgence, the return, the reform, the restating the whole thing for clarity --
Other stories, other kids.
Responsibility: James R. Kincaid.

Abstract:

"Explores contemporary America's preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children...Examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetished, and eroticized in everyday culture."--Jacket.

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