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

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 2. 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 3. 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.