
The Secret Trauma
Incest In The Lives Of Girls And Women, Revised Edition
Diana E. H. Russell(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 29. October 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
472 pages
978-0-465-07596-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Secret Trauma remains the definitive argument for the overwhelming prevalence of incestuous abuse. Based on findings about San Francisco, the book makes a persuasive case for an epidemic of abuse on a national scale. In her nuanced and sophisticated analysis, Russell carefully explores the complex variables of incestuous abuse: the changing incidence of abuse over time, the severity of th abuse, the victim's age, factors of class, race, and ethnicity, and long term effects on victims.In a new introduction to the revised edition, Russell takes on the most important issue to arise in the field since the book was originally published in 1986: the serious backlash that followed the outpouring of reports by victims/survivors, and the controversy over false accusations and false memories."
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
766 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-07596-6 (9780465075966)
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Person
Diana E.H. Russell, Ph.D., author of Behind Closed Doors in White South Africe and Rape in Marriage, is professor of sociology at Mills College, Oakland, California.