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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kincaid, James R. (James Russell) Erotic innocence. Durham : Duke University Press, 1998 (OCoLC)654228449 |
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| 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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