The Secret Trauma: Incest In The Lives Of Girls And Women, Revised Edition - Softcover

Russell, Diana E H

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465075967 ISBN 13: 9780465075966

Publisher: Basic Books, 1987

Synopsis

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 this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0465075967
• ISBN 13: 9780465075966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480