Father-Daughter Incest
With a New Afterword
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2012
333 pages
978-0-674-07651-8 (ISBN)
Description
Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published. Reviewing the extensive research literature that demonstrates the validity of incest survivors' sometimes repressed and recovered memories, she convincingly challenges the rhetoric and methods of the backlash movement against incest survivors, and the concerted attempt to deny the events they find the courage to describe.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Author's Note, 2000: In Memory of Lisa Hirschman
- Introduction: Cinderella or Saint Dympna
- One. The Incest Secret
- 1. A Common Occurrence
- 2. The Question of Harm
- 3. The Question of Blame
- 4. The Rule of the Father
- Two. Daughters' Lives
- 5. Incestuous Fathers and Their Families
- 6. The Daughter's Inheritance
- 7. Seductive Fathers and Their Families
- Three. Breaking Secrecy
- 8. The Crisis of Disclosure
- 9. Restoring Families
- 10. Criminal Justice
- 11. Remedies for Victims
- 12. Preventing Sexual Abuse
- Afterword, 2000: Understanding Incest Twenty Years Later
- Appendix: The Incest Statutes - Leigh B. Bienen
- Notes
- Index
