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The politics of child sexual abuse : emotion, social movements, and the state / Nancy Whittier.

By: Whittier, Nancy, 1966-Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2009Description: xii, 260 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780195325102 (hbk.)Subject(s): Child sexual abuse | Child sexual abuse -- Government policyDDC classification: 362.76
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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