The Rape of Innocence: female genital mutilation and circumcision in the USA

By Patricia Robinett

Book Overview

Genital mutilation in the USA has been a well-kept secret. "The Rape of Innocence" is an autobiographical account of a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant woman who discovered she had been the victim of clitoridectomy as a child in Kansas in the 1950s. The author is a therapist who deals with trauma. In her work, she has met many other American women and men who were genitally mutilated as children and adults. Could you -- or someone you love -- have been cut too? This book may explain the U.S. epidemic of sexual dysfunction, anger, anxiety, depression -- unresolved psychological trauma from circumcision. Now that the word is out, the healing can begin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187841111X
• ISBN13: 9781878411112
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Nunzio Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"