Florence Rush | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 23, 1918 |
| Died | December 9, 2008 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | social worker |
| Notable work | The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View |
Florence Rush (23 January 1918 – 9 December 2008) was an American certified social worker (M.S.W. from the University of Pennsylvania[1]), feminist theorist and organizer best known for introducing The Freudian Coverup in her presentation "The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View", about childhood sexual abuse and incest, at the April 1971 New York Radical Feminists (NYRF) Rape Conference.[2] Rush's paper at the time was the first challenge to Freudian theories of children as the seducers of adults rather than the victims of adults' sexual/power exploitation.[3]
- ^ Love, Barbara J. and Nancy F. Cott. Feminists Who Changed America, 1963—1975. University of Illinois Press, 2008 p. 399
- ^ Connell, Noreen and Wilson, Casandra, eds. Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women by New York Radical Feminists New American Library, 1974 p. 65
- ^ Obituary "Florence Rush, 90, feminist author who focused on child abuse", The Villager, December 24–30, 2008.
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