TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - Regulating bodies: children and sexual violence JO - Violence against women A1 - Hlavka, Heather R. SP - 1956 EP - 1979 VL - 25 IS - 16 N2 - The interdisciplinary silences on sexual violence and the omission of children and youth from social science research speak volumes of the power of the child as a flexible, cultural signifier. In this article, I argue that dominant frameworks of children and childhood make child sexual assault a discursive impossibility for most young people. The epistemic violence of silencing matters, and it is these erasures that are fundamental to understanding violence and power. I argue it is paramount for feminist researchers to call attention to the undermining qualities of Institutional Review Boards that act as gatekeepers of representation and voice.

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LA - en SN - 1077-8012 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801219875817 ID - ref1 ER -