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The Politics of Child Abuse and the Legacy of the 1980s in the US and UK

By Dominic Dean “Today’s American and British Right owes much to the 1980s. Nevertheless, we are now in the future that the dominant politics of the 1980s failed to fully imagine, much as Ronald Reagan’s ‘Let’s Make America Great Again’ slogan laid the seed for, yet failed to anticipate, its Trumpist reincarnation” Photograph: A billboard …

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Children’s sexual citizenship: Changing notions of the sexual child

By Anna Sparrman “It seems as though a dark view of children and sexuality has arisen since the political changes of the 1980s. Our own contemporary worries about the omnipresent paedophile limits the case for sexual citizenship for children because it refutes the political space and agency that needs to be created for this to …

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