Mulya, Teguh Wijaya (2018) Contesting the Dominant Discourse of Child Sexual Abuse: Sexual Subjects, Agency, and Ethics. Sexuality & Culture. ISSN 1095-5143 (Print) 1936-4822 (Online)
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Abstract
Responding to previous scholars’ call to explore the complexities of child sexual abuse (CSA), this article presents narratives of CSA and scrutinizes a binary construction underpinning this discourse of CSA, namely, the positioning of children as powerless and adults as powerful. The narratives belong to three Indonesian young people who have had sexual interactions with adults when they were children. The findings demonstrate how this binary positioning has been both drawn upon and resisted in the ways participants understand their sexual experiences. This article contributes to the existing literature by providing analyses of some vignettes of everyday experiences of how children might be constituted as sexual subjects, including their capability to exercise agency, perform resistance, and negotiate ethics. The implications of the findings are discussed in relation to how the recognition of children as sexual subjects and their sexual agency might be beneficial for parents, educators, and counselors.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Child sexual abuse; sexual agency; sexual subjectivity; discourse |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Psychology > Department of Psychology |
| Depositing User: | Teguh Wijaya Mulya205905 |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2018 03:33 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Mar 2021 15:45 |
| URI: | http://repository.ubaya.ac.id/id/eprint/31773 |
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