Description: Further DetailsTitle: IncestCondition: NewEAN: 9780745624150ISBN: 9780745624150Publisher: Polity PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/18/2002Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 412gLanguage: EnglishDescription: In this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order. Hamer's novel and innovative approach challenges the taboo on clear thinking around the subject of incest. She demonstrates the inherent contradictions in official accounts of the subject, from genetics and anthropology to law. Drawing on the work of American psychotherapist Judith Herman, she invites readers to focus on the neurological damage caused by traumatic experience, arguing that it is the overwhelming of one person by another that constitutes abuse, and it is this which causes the damage, not the fact of a close relationship. She brings together, in accessible form, key descriptions of the effects of abuse from analysts Sandor Ferenczi, Estela Welldon and Valerie Sinason She revisits the two real-life cases of Father Porter from Massachusetts and Sappho Durrell, daughter of the British writer Lawrence Durrell. She also draws on the work of artists and filmmakers to explain the way film and literature have helped to preserve our understanding of abuse and of its place in the world Films and novels featured: Murmur of the Heart, Art for Teachers of Children, Suddenly Last Summer, Through a Glass Darkly, Lolita, The Bluest Eye, The God of Small Things. Includes 16 film stillsCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesSubtitle: A New PerspectiveAuthor: Mary HamerRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Incest
Title: Incest
EAN: 9780745624150
ISBN: 9780745624150
Release Date: 07/18/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Subtitle: A New Perspective
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Incest : a New Perspective
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Abuse / General, Discrimination & Race Relations, Abuse / Child Abuse, Subjects & Themes / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Author: Mary Hamer
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Social Science
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
