The Politics of Survivorship: Incest, Women's Literature, and Feminist Theory

by Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Book Overview

The topic of incest began to emerge in the early 1990s, producing a spate of television specials and providing the material for a surging industry of talk shows as well as an anti-feminist campaign against incest survivors and their therapists. The validity, reality, and readability of recovered memories of incest has become a highly contested and difficult subject.
This heightened interest has benefited incest survivors, according to Rosaria...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814715427
• ISBN13: 9780814715420
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"