Davis, Joseph E.

Accounts of innocence : sexual abuse, trauma, and the self / Joseph E. Davis. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005. - x, 340 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index.

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.

0226137805 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226137813 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Sexual abuse victims.
Victims of crimes.

HV6625 / .D38 2005

362.76