Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index.
Contents
Incest and sexual offenses before the social discovery of sexual abuse -- Constructing sexual abuse 1 : family therapy and the child protection movement -- Constructing sexual abuse 2 : the antirape movement and victim activists -- Interpreting abuse : from collective story to psychological trauma model -- Therapeutic rationale and therapeutic persuasion -- The victimization account -- From victim to survivor and beyond -- Memory wars -- Accounts of innocence.