Defending Innocence
Ideologies of Childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3946573 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Kitzinger (0000-0002-2593-8033, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Issue | 28 |
| Pages | 77 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1394897 |
| OpenAlex | W4205182810 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 4 |
Over the last few years there has been a revival of public concern about child sexual abuse. A heterogenous child protection movement has evolved, promoting preventative work in schools and initiating projects such as the children's help line, ChildLine. There has been a major public information campaign, articles about child sex abuse have appeared in most women's magazines and there have been several TV documentaries. Central to all these branches of the campaign is the challenging of various miconceptions about child sex abuse: misconceptions about the nature and frequency of the abuse, the type of perpetrator and the role of the family (Adams and Fay, 1981; Justice and Justice, 1979). The movement seeks to replace old 'myths' with new 'facts'. The myth/fact scenario, however, serves to obscure the political dimensions of the 'new' approaches to child sexual abuse. Facts do not 'speak for themselves' and there are many questions to be raised about the images of manhood, womanhood, motherhood and family life that are emerging out of the campaigns. Some of these questions have been discussed elsewhere (Kitzinger, 1988), but here I want to focus on the images of childhood promoted in the public education programmes and the reporting of child sexual abuse in the media
Child abuse · Child sexual abuse · Criminology · Economic Justice · Feminism · Human sexuality · Ideology · Innocence · Mythology · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sexual abuse · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Anthropology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child Welfare and Adoption · Children's Rights and Participation · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
The Construction of Female Sexuality in the ‘Sex Special’
Sexing the Subject
Transformations of Public and Private Knowledge
I Could Eat My Baby to Bits’; passion and desire in lesbian mother–children love
Sexting among Young People
The “Participating Victim” in the Study of Erotic Experiences Between Children and Adults
Sexualitat i infància a Catalunya, Espanya
The Emergence of Sexualization as a Social Problem
Childhood Innocence for Settler Children
Indelible Memory Clots
Enfance et vulnérabilité. Ce que la politisation de l'enfance fait au concept de vulnérabilité
‘I Became Much Wiser over Time’
Vulnerability and Children’s Rights
Querying’ the Limits of Queering Boys Through the Contested Discourses on Sexuality
Challenging Social Attitudes and Making a Change
Too Small to Notice? Constructions of Childhood and Discourses of ‘Race’ in Predominantly White Contexts
Sexual Dissonances
A History of Ambivalence and Conflict in the Discursive Construction of the ‘Child Victim’ of Sexual Abuse
Power, Gender and Developmental Psychology
VII. Commentary
I don’t want to catch it’. Boys, girls and sexualities in an HIV/Aids environment
Kicking 'No-Touch' Discourses Into Touch
Envisaging the embryo in stem cell research
The Doing It Debate
(De)Criminalizing Adolescent Sex
Gender‐Related Violence and Young People
Representations of the ‘Damaged’ Child
Women, the family and child protection
Who is 'the family'? The assumptions of British social policy
Contested Vulnerability
The ‘social tsunami’
A paedophile scan to prevent child sexual abuse in child care? A thought experiment to problematize the notion of alignment in Responsible Research and Innovation
Swings and Roundabouts
Sexual abuse prevention and sexuality education
Child Sexual Abuse and the Symbolic Geographies of Cleveland
Stories About Child Sexual Abuse
Lost Innocent and Sacrificial Delegate
Segregated Schools in Segregated Societies
| Unique citing works | 38 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,11 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2023 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 35 |