Masculinities, Sexualities and Child Sexual Abuse / / Anne Cossins.

• VerfasserIn: Cossins, Anne,
• Place / Publishing House: The Hague, The Netherlands : : Kluwer Law International,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Why is child sexual abuse committed primarily by men and male adolescents, unlike other forms of child abuse? Is child sex offending, rather than being a deviant masculine sexual practice, related to normative masculine practices, that is, practices structured on dynamic and changing relations of po...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements.
• Preface.
• 1. Introduction: The Male Problem of Child Sex Offending.
• 2. Current Explanations of Child Sexual Abuse.
• 3. Masculinities and Sexualities: A Sociological Theory of Child Sexual Abuse.
• 4. The Masculine Sexual Practices of Child Sex Offenders: Testing the Power/Powerlessness Theory.
• 5. Concluding Remarks.
• Bibliography.
• Index.