Title: The politics of child sexual abuse : emotion, social movements, and the state /
Authors: Whittier, Nancy, 1966-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Child sexual abuse.; Child sexual abuse Government policy.
Abstract: By taking a look at the vast transformation in the movement against child sexual abuse that took place from the 1970s until now, Nancy Whittier observes and explains the ways in which activists influence society.
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.