The Age of Consent : Young People, Sexual Abuse and Agency /

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Imprint:Crawley, Western Australia : University of New South Wales Press : UWA Publishing, 2019.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12590771
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Other authors / contributors:Gleeson, Kate.
Lumby, Catharine.
ISBN:9781760800796
1760800791
9781760800789
1760800783
9781760800314
Notes:Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed July 12, 2019).
Summary:This book challenges received mainstream and scholarly ideas about how and why child abuse occurs and offers fresh ideas about understanding how we can enhance young people's agency and can make a difference to their lives by ensuring they have an opportunity to grow up developing their own voices and identities, free from adult coercion. The purpose of this edited collection is to bring interdisciplinary research around the high profile subject of child sexual abuse and look closely at why public concern and awareness is often diverted away from the real issues at stake. It challenges the noti.