Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse: Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood

Female-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 disc...