Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse : Feminist Revolutions in Theory, Research and Practice

by Warner, Sam

• ISBN13: 9780203938959
• ISBN10: 020393895X
• Copyright: 2008-12-19
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book offers a re-evaluation of mainstream and feminist approaches to understanding the theories and research issues relating to women and child sexual abuse.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Part 1: Theory. Setting scenes: Developing a feminist, post-structuralist perspective. Disordered and abnormal: Mainstream misrecognition of women and child sexual abuse. Dangerous desires: Child sexual abuse, mental disorder, and the Mass Media. Changing concerns in theory and activism: Women, child sexual abuse and radical politics. Part II: Research. Contingent morality and ethical research practices: Critical uses of interviewing and Q-methodology. Narratives of displacement: Women's routes into secure hospitals. Embodying disorder: Representing women and theorising the effects of child sexual abuse. Special care and child sexual abuse: Working with women in secure hospitals. Part III: Practice. Visible Therapy and child sexual abuse: critical approaches to working with women and girls. Between investigation and protection: Revising the role of the expert witness in child care proceedings. Reconstructing blame and re-enactment: Motherhood, child sexual abuse and domestic violence. Beyond deviance and damnation: Working with women and girls in secure care contexts. Postscript.