Surviving Selves; Feminism And Contemporary Discourses Of Child  

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Scott, Sara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Feminist Theory vol. 2 no. 3 (Dec. 2001), page 349-361.
Topik: Feminism And Contemporary Discourses of child Sexual Abuse
Fulltext: 349.pdf (56.34KB)

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Feminism can claim with considerable justification to have been the point of origin for contemporary concern over child sexual abuse. In Frigga Haug’s article for Feminist Theory (Haug, 2001)questions are raised about the role of feminism 20 years on in relation to the explosion of medical, legal and popular discourses which explain, denounce, identify instances of, causes of, effective responses to sexual abuse. Has feminist knowledge about the impact of abuse on survivors evolved into just another discourse in the ‘history of sexuality’, eliciting and moulding the stories told by, and about, psychiatric patients and drug users, children in care and women in prison? How can we judge whether feminist interventions, training for social workers and police officers, campaigns for law reform or therapeutic programmes retain any liberatory potential? Is it possible to disentangle some distinctively feminist knowledge and practice from other discursive practices in the field, or do we merely struggle like Foucauldian flies unable to escape a web of power which is partly of our own making?

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