Understanding the Effects of Child Sexual Abuse

This book offers a re-evaluation of mainstream and feminist approaches to understanding the theories and research issues relating to women and child sexual abuse.

Sam Warner is a consultant clinical psychologist and research fellow, Department of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.

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.