Sexual violence against children in Britain since 1965 : trailing abuse / Nick Basannavar.
Basannavar, Nick, author.
2021
HV6570.4.G7 B37 2021
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Title Sexual violence against children in Britain since 1965 : trailing abuse / Nick Basannavar.
Author Basannavar, Nick, author.
ISBN 9783030831486 (electronic bk.)
3030831485 (electronic bk.)
3030831477
9783030831479
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83148-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-83148-6 doi
Call Number HV6570.4.G7 B37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 364.1536
Summary This book investigates the changes and continuities in the ways in which sexual violence has been interpreted and represented in Britain since 1965. It explores the representational trail of the Moors murders and subsequent trial of 1966, the emergence of age of consent abolitionism in the 1970s, Clevelands child sexual abuse crisis of 1987-8, and 2010 and 20s contemplations on the Jimmy Savile scandal. Harnessing research into popular media forms and a huge range of personal, political and professional records, Nick Basannavar carefully parses and illustrates the ways in which journalists, medical workers, politicians, lobbyists and other groups assembled and animated their narratives, revealing complex rhetorical and emotional processes. This book challenges problematic conceptual dichotomies such as silence/noise or ignorance/knowledge. It shows instead that although categories such as child sexual abuse and paedophilia may be relatively recent linguistic value-constructs, sexual violence against children has existed and been represented across historical moments, in changeable and challenging ways. Nick Basannavar is an historian specialising in the cultural, social and sexual history of postwar Britain. He completed his doctoral research at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, where he has also taught modern British history.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2021).
Series Genders and sexualities in history.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783030831479
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Introduction: Trailing AbusePart I: LandscapesTwo
Attraction/ViolenceThree
Perpetrator/VictimPart II: MoorlandFour
'No Adjective': Reading the Moors MurdersFive
Sixties EllipsesPart III: BorderlandSix
PIE and the 'Radical Case'Seven
Speaking About PIE, Speaking About Paedophilia Part IV: ClevelandEight
The Steel RiverNine
Concerning ChildrenTen
'When the State Abuses Children'Part V: HinterlandEleven
'Good While it Lasted'Twelve
Epilogue: Speaking.

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