From self-help to the state
Subtitle: the politics of child sexual abuse
By: Nancy Whittier.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780195325102
Subjects: Child sexual abuse; Child sexual abuse -- Government policy
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: From rare perversion to patriarchal crime: feminist challenges to knowledge about incest in the 1970s; title: The politics of the "therapeutic turn": self-help and internalized oppression; title: Social services, social control, and social change: the state and public policy in the 1970s and 1980s; title: Going mainstream: self-help activism during the 1980s; title: Diffusion and dilution: mass culture discovers child sexual abuse; title: Turning tides: countermovement organizing, "false memory syndrome," and the struggle over scientific knowledge; title: The politics of visibility: coming out, activist art, and emotional change.