Dr Abigail Bray

Professional Memberships

  • ARACY

Awards and Recognition

National and International Awards

  • Inaugural Inductee W.A. Women’s Hall of Fame 2011

Research Areas and Interests

  • Moral panics
  • Mass affect and tabloid legislation
  • Sexualisation of children
  • Pornography cultures
  • Therapeutic governmentality
  • Child abuse
  • Racism
  • Child abuse
  • New youth movements
  • Youth cyber activism and protest movements
  • Cultural politics of emotion

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Journal Articles

  • Bray, A., (2011), Merciless doctrines: Child pornography, censorship, and late capitalism. Signs, 37(1), 133-158, DOI: 10.1086/660178.
  • Bray, A., (2008), The question of intolerance: 'Corporate Paedophilia' and child sex abuse moral panics. Australian Feminist Studies, 23(57), 323-341, DOI: 10.1080/08164640802233286.