Accounts of innocence : sexual abuse, trauma, and the self / Joseph E. Davis.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2005], ©2005.

x, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index.

Incest and sexual offenses before the social discovery of sexual abuse -- Constructing sexual abuse 1 : family therapy and the child protection movement -- Constructing sexual abuse 2 : the antirape movement and victim activists -- Interpreting abuse : from collective story to psychological trauma model -- Therapeutic rationale and therapeutic persuasion -- The victimization account -- From victim to survivor and beyond -- Memory wars -- Accounts of innocence.