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| Document Type: | Book |
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| 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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"Nancy Whittier has given us a powerful account of how the movement against child sexual abuse has unfolded over the past 40 years. Knowing our history--recording and preserving it--is essential if we are to learn from it. The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse is the story of how activists have changed their own lives and the larger world. At a time when public discourse often simplifies or dismisses this movement, Whittier tells our history in a way that advances deep understanding of the issue."--Ellen Bass, co-author of The Courage to Heal
"In a single book, Nancy Whittier overturns all conventional wisdom about why sexual abuse became such a contentious public issue. Battles over incest, repressed memory, and clergy abuse are not moral panics, she shows, but a collective therapeutic activism that challenges existing forms of knowledge and control. The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse sets out a bold, new direction that is essential reading for all scholars of political culture an
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- Child sexual abuse.
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