Protection Under Fire , edited by Professor J. E. B. Myers (1994a), provided more detailed analysis of media coverage of child abuse. The theme of the book is provided by the second sentence of the first chapter: "In the late 1980s, after a period of almost exclusively favourable media attention, child protection became more publicly controversial" (Finkelhor 1994: 1). According to Finkelhor, all social movements "engender backlash", travelling through "cycles of attention and controversy", and can be said to have a "natural history" (1994: 1). The shift from generally positive media coverage of child abuse largely involved a shift in focus from child abuse itself to a more critical examination of society's response to child abuse, or what is now called child protection. This analysis is supported by Finkelhor's summary of what he terms the "very successful" mobilisation of responses to child abuse. Child abuse, and child sexual abuse in particular, "have clearly arrived on the public agenda" and have been "occupying center stage" for far longer than most social problems do (1994: 2). Finkelhor (1994) attributes this success to the alliance of child welfare professionals and the women's movement, particularly in the area of child sexual abuse. Success, according to Finkelhor, has also been achieved because of the "symbolic strength" of the fight against child abuse. Child sexual abuse in particular, he argues, has been even more "symbolically powerful" (1994: 3). This is because child sexual abuse unites three important preoccupations of the period: sexuality, changing gender and family