Whittier, Nancy,  1966- <br/><br/>
The politics of child sexual abuse :  emotion, social movements, and the state / 
Nancy Whittier. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  c2009. 
 - xii, 260 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195325102 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Child sexual abuse.<br/>Child sexual abuse--Government policy.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.76