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One outcome of the consciousness-raising groups within the women’s movement in the 1960s and 1970s was the recognition that many women had experienced childhood sexual abuse. Increased awareness and dialogue began to change the Zeitgeist, so that mental health services in particular were forced to acknowledge that this experience was not fantasy, but a cruel reality for many adult women (Rosenfeld et al., 1979; Surrey et al., 1990), more recently enabling men with similar experiences to speak about them.
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Ainscough, C. and Toon, K., Breaking Free (London: Sheldon Press, 2000).
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Oaker, G. (2003). Long-term Psychological Effects of Child Sexual Abuse. In: Boswell, G., Poland, F. (eds) Women’s Minds, Women’s Bodies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919885_10
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