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Child Sexual Assault in the 1970s
This chapter explores understandings of child sexual abuse, beginning with the nascent shifts to even acknowledging sexual assault as a problem for...
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Child Sexual Assault in Institutions
As Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2014–2017) and numerous international studies have shown, sexual...
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Reconceptualising Child Sexual Assault in the 1980s
This chapter explores the explosion of interest in child sexual abuse that occurred in the 1980s, across governments, the criminal justice sector,...
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Introduction: Sexual Violence
This chapter introduces and defines rape and sexual assault as they were understood in 1970s Australia, both legally and in Australian culture....
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Sexual Violence in Australia, 1970s–1980s Rape and Child Sexual Abuse
This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and legal change. Driven by the sexual...
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‘Healthy’ Relationships: Feminism and the Psy Disciplines in the Political History of Sexual Violence in Contemporary America
This chapter explores the history of the use of public health language as a framework for discussing sexual violence in the United States. Although...
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A Popular History of Resistance across Borders
This chapter introduces readers to the importance of studying resistance in its many manifestations (active and passive, organized and quotidian, and...
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Enlightenment Feminism and Sexual Liberation
Focusing on Madame de Villedieu’s Mémoires d’Henriette-Sylvie de Molière (1671-74), Aphra Behn’s poem “The Golden Age” (1684), Delarivier Manley’s...
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Critical Context and History
Since the 1980s, across the humanities, non-legal specialists seeking an accessible exposition of rape law in the early modern period have come to...
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From Colonial Violence to Bare Life in South Africa: Sexual Violence and Care Ethics During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The spread of zoonotic viruses that cross the human animal barrier, such as Covid-19, is a stark reminder of the limited control that humans have...
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Sexuality, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Barter in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Women’s Camp
Over the past decade, historical research has generated a nuanced understanding of the role of sexual violence during the Holocaust and of how those...
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Rape, Feminism and Culture in the 1970s
By the 1970s, it had become clear that sexual assault was a common life experience for many women and children, and some men. This chapter explores...
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Conclusion: The Failure of Change
The conclusion highlights that—while this period saw substantial change and reform—much stayed the same. Beginning with a comparison of public...
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Assembling a Christian View of Homosexual Citizenship
This chapter explores the pre-history of church discussions about same-sex desire, which led towards Anglican support for homosexual law reform and...
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Introduction
As a unique crime phenomenon which has to date been largely overlooked by academic historians and criminologists, the study of acid attacks offers a...
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Epilogue: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death”—War and Reconciliation
Included in the epilogue is a brief history of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C., and its significance to women veterans as a place of...
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Masses vs. Massa: The Ongoing Antiauthoritarian Struggle
This chapter concludes our history by examining ongoing resistance across the region, noting everything from the role of the arts to armed struggle,...
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Bodily Estrangements of Space
This chapter addresses estrangement of space in performance art, more specifically in the artist Emma Sulkowicz’s piece Mattress Performance. From...
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Conclusions
The following chapter serves as the conclusion to the book, recapitulating its most important findings relating to the critique of metronormativity...
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Gendered Testimonies at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
In this chapter, Michael defines gendered testimonies and delineates surrounding cultures to provide opportunities for develo** useful insights for...