Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse (Concepts for Critical Psychology)

Author: Sherianne KramerPublisher: RoutledgePaperback:ISBN 10: 9781138211094ISBN 13: 978-1138211094Hardcover:ISBN 10: 1138211087ISBN 13: 978-1138211087Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the first direct exploration of FSA victimhood, this book analyses: why victims of FSA remain so underexplored and invisible as objects of human science knowledge; the limited and overly rigid discourses in local and global psychological theory and practice that continues to treat particular subjects as ‘victim worthy’ through paradigms that construct victimhood as gendered; and the possibility of new discourses that could disrupt normative understandings of gender, sexuality, and power in sex abuse, and as constitutive to the beginnings of