{"product_id":"virtual-pedophilia-9781478008118","title":"Virtual Pedophilia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGillian Harkins traces the genealogy of the transformation of cultural construction of the pedophile as a social outcast into the image of normative white masculinity from the 1980s to the present, showing how his “normalcy” makes him hard to identify and stop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The explosive subject of pedophilia too often generates social hysteria. In \u003ci\u003eVirtual Pedophilia\u003c\/i\u003e Gillian Harkins counters that response with an impressively researched multidisciplinary analysis of the emergence of the cultural figure of ‘the pedophile’ in the late twentieth century. But even more importantly, her lucid, pointed, and politically urgent provocations make this one of the most important books on sexual politics published in the past twenty years.” -- Lisa Duggan, author of * Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed *\u003cbr\u003e“It takes a century to \u003ci\u003enot\u003c\/i\u003e catch a predator: to birth him as a white man we can never net. Why can't we catch him? We can't see him. He's a white needle in a very white haystack. With statistics pooling, information flooding, he more eludes. He becomes ‘virtual,’ which bears devastating racial effects for communities of color. Expect this original, astonishing weave in Gillian Harkins' arresting new book. Tying together racial critique, feminist and sexuality studies, and legal discourse, Harkins proffers razor-sharp claims that challenge several fields—even queer theory. At every turn in this gripping read, I feel the author's crackling intelligence.” -- Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of * The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eVirtual Pedophilia \u003c\/i\u003eis an important and necessary book with far-ranging implications for multiple fields of study as well as for scholarly and activist interventions in cultures of surveillance, mass incarceration, and pathologization.” -- Gabrielle Owen * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Virtual Pedophilia  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Monstrous Sexuality and Vile Sovereignty  29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Profiling Virtuality and Pedophilic Data  62\u003cbr\u003e 3. Informational Image and Procedural Tone  95\u003cbr\u003e 4. Capturing the Past and the Vitality of Crime  128\u003cbr\u003e 5. Capturing the Future and the Sexuality of Risk  161\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Exceptional Pedophilia and the Everyday Case  194\u003cbr\u003e Notes  209\u003cbr\u003e References  229\u003cbr\u003e Index  263","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408982843735,"sku":"9781478008118","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478008118.jpg?v=1730504960","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/virtual-pedophilia-9781478008118","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}