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dc.contributor.authorSmaal, Yorick
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-09T12:31:01Z
dc.date.available2017-10-09T12:31:01Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-06-12T23:44:07Z
dc.identifier.issn1478-0542
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/hic3.12083
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/60152
dc.description.abstractThis article reviews histories of child sexual abuse in Australia. While it is national in its focus, the historical problems, methods, and approaches explored here resonate globally, especially in the Anglosphere. Given the transnational dimensions of sex and gender politics, child welfare and protection, and the development of common law, any local historiographic survey is best located within the international context. This article argues that defining and interpreting sex with children is a significant problem in the historical literature. The cleavage between constructions of innocence and paradigms of abuse remains prominent in contemporary scholarship although assimilating these schools of thought is neither feasible nor fruitful. The first part of this article explores the feminist rediscovery of child sexual abuse in the late twentieth century, considering the extent to which the problem had been earlier erased from the public domain. Paying particular attention to law and socio-legal histories, it investigates definitional problems around children and crime, and examines how the criminal justice system and media have been used to recover histories of abuse.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.description.sponsorshipGriffith University
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom702
dc.relation.ispartofpageto714
dc.relation.ispartofissue9
dc.relation.ispartofjournalHistory Compass
dc.relation.ispartofvolume11
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistorical studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGender and crime
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLaw, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship)
dc.subject.fieldofresearchAustralian history
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4303
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440209
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode480407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode430302
dc.titleHistorical perspectives on child sexual abuse, part 1
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorSmaal, Yorick J.


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