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Zusatztext Nancy Whittier has given us a powerful account of how the movement against child sexual abuse has unfolded over the past 40 years. Knowing our history--recording and preserving it--is essential if we are to learn from it. The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse is the story of how activists have changed their own lives and the larger world. At a time when public discourse often simplifies or dismisses this movement, Whittier tells our history in a way that advances deep understanding of the issue. Informationen zum Autor Nancy Whittier is Associate 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. Klappentext 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 obseres and explains the ways in which activists influence society. Whittier is the first to provide a comprehensive picture of how the movement emerged as a fringe movement, entered the mainstrean, and ultimatelty had a profound effect on the political and cultural landscape. Zusammenfassung This book traces activism against child sexual abuse from its emergence in feminist anti-rape efforts, through the development of mainstream self-help and its entry into mass media and public policy. Examining the connections between feminism, therapeutic politics, and public policy, it analyzes the processes that shape social change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1.: From Rare Perversion to Patriarchal Crime: Feminist Challenges to Knowledge about Incest in the 1970s 2.: The Politics Of The "Therapeutic Turn": Self-Help and Internalized Oppression 3.: Social Services, Social Control, and Social Change: The State and Public Policy in the 1970s and 1980s 4 .: Going Mainstream: Self-Help Activism During the 1980s 5.: Diffusion and Dilution: Mass Culture Discovers Child Sexual Abuse 6.: Turning Tides: Countermovement Organizing, "False Memory Syndrome," and the Struggle Over Scientific Knowledge 7.: The Politics of Visibility: Coming Out, Activist Art, and Emotional Change and Internalized Oppression 8.: The Paradoxical Consequences of Successl Change: The State and Public Policy in the 1970s and 1980s 4: Going Mainstream: Self-Help Activism During the 1980s Diffusion and Dilution: Mass Culture Discovers Child Sexual Abuse 6: Turning Tides: Countermovement Organizing, "False Conclusiondrome," and the Struggle Over Scientific Knowledge 7: The Politics of Visibility: Coming Out, Activist Art, and Emotional Change 8: The Paradoxical Consequences of Success ...
