The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse
Emotion, Social Movements, and the State
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 May 2011
- ISBN 9780199783311
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 234x156x14 mm
- Weight 386 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
As recently as 1970, child sexual abuse was seen as extremely rare and usually harmless. Thirty years later, the mass media regularly covered child sexual abuse, many people who had been sexually abused as children spoke openly about their experiences, and a thriving infrastructure of governmental and private organizations sought to prevent child sexual abuse and remedy its effects. This book tells the story of these changes and the activists who helped to bring them about, and draws powerful lessons about the crucial roles of the self and emotion in bringing about widespread social change.
MoreLong description:
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse is the first study of activism against child sexual abuse, tracing its emergence in feminist anti-rape efforts, its development into mainstream self-help, and its entry into mass media and public policy. Nancy Whittier deftly charts the development of the movement's "therapeutic politics," demonstrating that activists viewed tactics for changing emotions and one's sense of self as necessary for widespread social change and combined them with efforts to change institutions and the state. Though activism originated with feminists, the movement grew and spread to include the goals of non-feminist survivors, opponents, therapists, law enforcement, and elected officials. In the process, the movement both succeeded beyond its wildest dreams and saw its agenda transformed in ways that were sometimes unrecognizable. A moving account, The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse draws powerful lessons about the transformative potential of therapeutic politics, their connection to institutions, and the processes of incomplete social change that characterize American politics today.
Nancy Whittier is Professor of Sociology at Smith College. She is the author of Feminist Generations and co-editor of Feminist Frontiers and Social Movements: Identity, Culture, and the State.
The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse offers a significant contribution to understanding the ongoing public issue of sexual abuse that will be of interest to a wide readership, and particularly to scholars of political culture, gender and sexuality, and social movement theory.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
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
Conclusion
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