Certainty, complicity, complexity: approaching sexual abuse

Through an engagement with work by Gayle Rubin and Lee Edelman, this essay provides a concise historical overview of efforts to combat sexual harm to illustrate that our certainty that we are in the right in relation to our views about sexual offenders can generate as much pain and suffering as sexu...

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Subtitles:The Religion & Sexual Abuse Project
Main Author: Brintnall, Kent (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: Religion
Year: 2025, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 884-897
Further subjects:B moral certainty
B Lee Edelman
B SEX offenders
B Gayle Rubin
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Summary:Through an engagement with work by Gayle Rubin and Lee Edelman, this essay provides a concise historical overview of efforts to combat sexual harm to illustrate that our certainty that we are in the right in relation to our views about sexual offenders can generate as much pain and suffering as sexual abusers themselves generate.
ISSN:1096-1151
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2025.2538953