Dark Secrets of Childhood: Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals

Fred Powell; Margaret Scanlon

doi:10.46692/9781447317876

Dark Secrets of Childhood

Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals

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Fred Powell, University College Cork, Margaret Scanlon, University College Cork

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: March 2022
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781447317876
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447317876

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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This ground-breaking book explores the relationship between the media, child abuse and shifting adult–child power relations which, in Western countries, has spawned an ever-expanding range of laws, policies and procedures introduced to address the 'explosion' of interest in the issue of child abuse.

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Dark Secrets of Childhood

Media Power, Child Abuse and Public Scandals

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp 1-25

Part 1 - The reports
pp 26-26

One - The construction of child abuse as a social problem
pp 27-54

Two - The public child
pp 55-84

Three - The Catholic Church, scandal and media
pp 85-126

Four - The Ryan Report and the charity myth
pp 127-160

Five - Child abuse, cultural disbelief and the patriarchal family
pp 161-183

Part 2 - The context
pp 184-184

Six - Rethinking children’s rights
pp 185-206

Seven - Child culture and risk society
pp 207-228

Eight - Angelmakers: the hidden history of child abuse
pp 229-264

Nine - The cultural politics of child abuse
pp 265-276

Ten - Conclusion
pp 277-282

References
pp 283-296

Index
pp 297-309

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