The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of Girls and Women
Diana E. H. Russell
ISBN 10: 0465075967 ISBN 13: 9780465075966
Published by Basic Books, 1987
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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.”
About the Author:
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.
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Title: The Secret Trauma: Incest in the Lives of ...
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 1987
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: Revised.