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The politics of child sexual abuse : emotion, social movements, and the state
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The politics of child sexual abuse : emotion, social movements, and the state

Author: Nancy Whittier
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This book traces activism against child sexual abuse from its emergence in feminist anti-rape efforts, through the development of mainstream self-help and its entry into mass media and public policy.  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Nancy Whittier
ISBN: 9780195325102 0195325109
OCLC Number: 289095959
Description: xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: From rare perversion to patriarchal crime : feminist challenges to knowledge about incest in the 1970s --
The politics of the "therapeutic turn" : self-help and internalized oppression --
Social services, social control, and social change : the state and public policy in the 1970s and 1980s --
Going mainstream : self-help activism during the 1980s --
Diffusion and dilution : mass culture discovers child sexual abuse --
Turning tides : countermovement organizing, "false memory syndrome," and the struggle over scientific knowledge --
The politics of visibility : coming out, activist art, and emotional change --
The paradoxical consequences of success.
Responsibility: Nancy Whittier.
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