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Erotic innocence : the culture of child molesting / by James R. Kincaid.
- Title
- Erotic innocence : the culture of child molesting / by James R. Kincaid.
- Author
- Kincaid, James R. (James Russell)
- Publication
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV6570 .K545 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 352 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Explores contemporary America's preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children ... Examines how children and images of youth are idealized, fetished, and eroticized in everyday culture."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Trapped in the story -- Inventing the child-and sexuality -- Myths of protection, acts of exposure -- Home alone with the adorable child -- Resenting children -- Myths, legends, folktales, and lies -- The trials: believing the children -- Accusing the stars: perversion among the prominent -- Recovered memory -- The backlash, the counterbacklash, the reaction, the resurgence, the return, the reform, the restating the whole thing for clarity -- Other stories, other kids.
- ISBN
- 0822321777 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822321939 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97041074^
- OCLC
- 37806117
- SCSB-10147037
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library