Competing Meanings of Childhood and the Social Construction of Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean

Autor/inn/en	Pasura, Dominic; Jones, Adele D.; Hafner, James A. H.; Maharaj, Priya E.; Nathaniel-DeCaires, Karene; Johnson, Emmanuel Janagan
Titel	Competing Meanings of Childhood and the Social Construction of Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean
Quelle	In: Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 20 (2013) 2, S.200-214 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0907-5682
DOI	10.1177/0907568212462255
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Child Abuse; Child Development; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Focus Groups; Questionnaires; Interviews; Victims of Crime; Adults; Childrens Rights; Sexuality; Sex Stereotypes; Gender Issues; Puberty; Slavery; Foreign Countries + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesentwicklung; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; 'Children''s rights'; Kindesrecht; Sexualität; Geschlechterfrage; Pubertät; Sklaverei; Ausland
Abstract	This article examines the dynamic interplay between competing meanings of childhood and the social construction of sexual abuse in the Caribbean. Drawing on qualitative data from a study undertaken in six Caribbean countries, the article suggests that Caribbean childhoods are neither wholly global nor local but hybrid creations of the region's complex historical, social and cultural specificities, real or imagined. As childhood is a concept that lies at the intersection of multiple frames of reference, context-specific definitions of childhood--what it means to be a child--have a direct impact on the way in which the issue of child sexual abuse is constructed and understood. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10