NCJ Number
128038
Journal
Feminist Review Issue: 28 Dated: (Spring 1988) Complete issue
Date Published
1988
Length
181 pages
Annotation
These 16 articles and a poem examine child sexual abuse from feminist perspectives, with emphasis on its nature, identification, and legal and community responses in Great Britain.
Abstract
Individual papers contrast feminist approaches with traditional analyses of the causes of child sexual abuse, describe historical developments in awareness and responses to incest in the United States, and consider current definitions of child sexual abuse. Other papers focus on the relationship between media and literature images of child sexual abuse and preventive programs, Freud's seduction theory, and the newspaper reporting regarding allegations of child sexual abuse. Additional articles examine the role of the British civil and criminal law in addressing child sexual abuse, community organizations and programs that focus on the issue, school policies on the identification and reporting of child sexual abuse, and prevention efforts. Illustrations, chapter reference lists, and list of telephone numbers of British rape crisis centers