Liz Kelly: Sexual Exploitation of Children

“I think we need to look at things separately in order to understand their complexities and all their nuances. But if we forget in the process that what we're talking about is something which is linked, not just at the level of our theory, but also at the level of women's experience and children's experience, then I think we're not going to be able to make the kinds of differences that we need to make in women and children's lives.”

“One of the things that I think is very powerful in all our lives, is whether we can allow ourselves to see and treat mothers as women.”

From 1996:

"Liz Kelly is a feminist researcher and activist, who has worked in the field of violence against women and children for over 20 years. She has been active in establishing and working in a refuge and rape crisis centre, and in local, regional and national campaigning groups. She is the author of Surviving Sexual Violence, and many book chapters and articles. She works at the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, University of North London, a small self-financing research centre. She is currently a member of Manchester Justice for Women, a trustee of Zero Tolerance, and chair of the Council of Europe working party on violence against women."

Liz Kelly is a professor of sexualised violence, and director of the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University. She is a former co-chair of the End Violence Against Women Coalition. Kelly has continued to publish on the topic of male violence against women and children, receiving a CBE in 2000 in acknowledgement of her work.