New feminist stories of child sexual abuse : sexual scripts and dangerous dialogues / edited by Paula Reavey and Sam Warner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reavey, Paula.

Warner, Sam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adult child sexual abuse victims--Psychology.

Adult child sexual abuse victims.

Adult child sexual abuse victims--Rehabilitation.

Child sexual abuse.

Poststructuralism.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

Child sexual abuse is a multifaceted event, interpreted in many different ways, in many different contexts. In New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse, contributors try to untangle some of the complex ways in which stories of child sexual abuse are translated through and into personal, professional and social politics. The first section of the book explores the cultural and political landscape of child sexual abuse in Western and non-Western contexts. It examines the ways in which radical aspects of feminism can be undermined in Western cultures and how Westernised ideologies of childhood, sex and gender have been used to structure discussions about child sexual abuse across the world. The second section traces the effects of these wider cultural and political narratives through the various contexts in which child sexual abuse is theorised and around which interventions in the lives of women are structured. It provides insights into how traditional approaches to understanding harm can be challenged and reworked in practice, using alternative therapeutic models based on feminist post-structuralist agendas. Reworking earlier feminist analyses, New Feminist Stories of Child Sexual Abuse asks pertinent questions about how child sexual abuse is produced, rather than merely represented, in the ways we speak about it.

Contents:

Part I Exploring the cultural and political landscape of child sexual abuse 13

2 Feminism's restless undead: the radical/lesbian/victim theorist and conflicts over sexual violence against children and women / Chris Atmore 15

3 Childhood, sexual abuse and contemporary political subjectivities / Erica Burman 34

4 Problems of cultural imperialism in the study of child sexual abuse / Ann Levett 52

5 Traumatic revisions: remembering abuse and the politics of forgiveness / Janice Haaken 77

6 Creating discourses of 'false memory': media coverage and production dynamics / Jenny Kitzinger 94

7 The vigilant(e) parent and the paedophile: the News of the World campaign 2000 and the contemporary governmentality of child sexual abuse / Vikki Bell 108

Part II How we theorise and intervene in the lives of women who have experienced child sexual abuse 129

8 The 'harm' story in childhood sexual abuse: contested understandings, disputed knowledges / Lindsay O'Dell 131

9 When past meets present to produce a sexual 'other': examining professional and everyday narratives of child sexual abuse and sexuality / Paula Reavey 148

10 Diagnosing distress and reproducing disorder: women, child sexual abuse and 'borderline personality disorder' / Sam Warner, Tracy Wilkins 167

11 Writing the effects of sexual abuse: interrogating the possibilities and pitfalls of using clinical psychology expertise for a critical justice agenda / Nicola Gavey 187

12 Working at being survivors: identity, gender and participation in self-help groups / Marcia Worrell 210

13 Disrupting identity through Visible Therapy: a feminist post-structuralist approach to working with women who have experienced child sexual abuse / Sam Warner 226.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415259436

0415259444

OCLC:

51717575