“I Fought. I Screamed. I Bit”: The Assertion of Rights Within Historic Abuse Inquiry Transcripts.

This article examines how treating historic abuse inquiry testimonies as retrospective assertions of rights can help to shed light on how this abuse was able to occur and how memories are recalled in an inquiry environment. It presents its approach as a possible framework for other historians seekin...

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Published in:	Journal of Australian Studies Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 217 - 231
Main Author:	Davis, Fiona
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2018
Subjects:	Child sexual abuse Sex crimes Australian history Historians History Australia
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost