Sexual Abuse and Troubled Feminism
A Reply to Camille Guy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11634796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Atmore (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-96 |
| Publication date | 1999-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/014177899339315 |
| OpenAlex | W2062921420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
In a recent issue of Feminist Review Camille Guy argued, focusing on selected controversies in New Zealand and Australia, that radical feminists have had a prescriptive hegemony in defining issues of sexual abuse, and that this has resulted in injustices and a censorious climate in which people who disagreed were too intimidated to speak out. This article replies to Guy's assertions and, while disagreeing with much of her argument, also suggests that it does point to more broadly sig-nificant issues for feminists trying to analyse and oppose sexual violences at the end of the twentieth century. These include the legacy of the western feminist sex wars in a frequently polarized set of approaches to sexual abuse controversies, and the usefulness of postmodern/poststructuralist theories in helping feminists to make sense of the increasing complexities of the relationship between the mass media and feminist discourses against rape and child sexual abuse
Argument (complex analysis · Criminology · Epistemology · Feminism · Hegemony · Human sexuality · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sexual abuse · Sexual violence · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Themes in Literature Analysis
Changing cultures
Toward a feminist theory of the state
Against our will
Sex and Violence
Toward an anthropology of women.
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980)
VII. Commentary
Law's Power, the Sexed Body, and Feminist Discourse
Against Our Will. Men, Women and Rape
Multiple Mediations
Feminism and Sexual Abuse
Unravelling Identities
Local, Global or Globalized
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Situated Knowledges
Social Criticism without Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2019 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |