...Chapter Five examines two episodes in the expansion of child abuse definitions. One was the rising awareness to the dangers and prevalence of child sexual abuse, particularly within their homes. The increased consciousness of children as potential victims of sexual exploitation led to the 1980s...

...In this chapter, Mary Anne Adams narrates the story of her upbringing in Oxford, Mississippi, including the spatial organization of the town, her relationships with her parents, and struggles with child sexual abuse at the hands of her favourite uncle. Most of all, she discusses her feelings...

... traces a genealogy of how texts depict sexual abuse between women, ranging from suggestions of that violence to descriptions of violent acts. The silences of these texts speak loudly here, for reading between the lines—decoding what is said and inferring what is not—urges the reader to address difficult...

... views of motherhood, and of enslaved Africans as parents, but also enslaved women’s particular vulnerability to sexual abuse from French men both in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans (especially Mauritius). Marie-Jeanne and Lisette’s court appearance, in Kaskaskia and then in New Orleans where Marie...