One fifty million girls and seventy three million boys under the age of 18 are compelled to involve in sexual interaction or other forms of sexual brutality engaging in physical abuse, though this is certainly an underestimate according to estimation. Much of the sexual assault is imposed by family members or people living in or visitors of child’s family, people usually trustworthy and frequently responsible for their concern.
Narrating how the Cleveland cases (the 1987 medical diagnosis of CSA in 165 girls and boys in an eponymous town in North East England) aroused British people to the horrific truth of CSA, Virani stresses the requirement of immediate action against CSA by the government of India, educational institutions, medical practitioners, media, psychoanalysts, etc. But she emphasizes the quick …show more content…
Virani remains unwavering and fierce advocate throughout the book and never distracts herself from the child who has been abused. Her style of writing is unswerving and vigorous, while describing the several cases of abuse; she keeps away from either pornographic or unnecessary gory. Instead she conveys the awful dismay, perplexity and moan of these children’s experiences with accurate language and even by including the dialogues from child’s perspective. There are other women who dealt with this issue like Dr Monika Das’ Her Story So Far: Tales of the Girl Child in India (2003), Manju Kapur’s Home (2006), Arundati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997) etc.
The empirical study of CSA by David Finkelhor has considered the families, societal contingencies and cultural norms for finding a problem definition of CSA from both social and ethical perspective. The significant contributions made by the feminists in framing the issue in the context of sexual exploitation and aggression and rapid shifts of family structure are also made him to identify it as one of the reasons for
Narrating how the Cleveland cases (the 1987 medical diagnosis of CSA in 165 girls and boys in an eponymous town in North East England) aroused British people to the horrific truth of CSA, Virani stresses the requirement of immediate action against CSA by the government of India, educational institutions, medical practitioners, media, psychoanalysts, etc. But she emphasizes the quick …show more content…
Virani remains unwavering and fierce advocate throughout the book and never distracts herself from the child who has been abused. Her style of writing is unswerving and vigorous, while describing the several cases of abuse; she keeps away from either pornographic or unnecessary gory. Instead she conveys the awful dismay, perplexity and moan of these children’s experiences with accurate language and even by including the dialogues from child’s perspective. There are other women who dealt with this issue like Dr Monika Das’ Her Story So Far: Tales of the Girl Child in India (2003), Manju Kapur’s Home (2006), Arundati Roy’s The God of Small Things (1997) etc.
The empirical study of CSA by David Finkelhor has considered the families, societal contingencies and cultural norms for finding a problem definition of CSA from both social and ethical perspective. The significant contributions made by the feminists in framing the issue in the context of sexual exploitation and aggression and rapid shifts of family structure are also made him to identify it as one of the reasons for