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Perversion of power : sexual abuse in the Catholic Church / Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea.
Van Pelt Library BX1912.9 .F74 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Frawley-O'Dea, Mary Gail, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child sexual abuse by clergy.
- Catholic Church--Clergy--Sexual behavior.
- Catholic Church.
- Clergy.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 320 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Drawing on 20 years of clinical experience, the author presents the dynamics of sexual abuse both from the victim's point of view and from the priest's; probes why the Church hierarchy, fellow priests, and lay people were silent for so long; and what drew this scandal into the public arena.
- Contents:
- From the Bayou to Boston: a developing pattern
- Surviving soul murder
- Suffering, submission, and sadomasochism
- Embodied and gendered souls
- Degraded sexual desire and theologized sex
- Celibate sexuality and sexually active "celibates"
- Homosexuality: secreted and scapegoated
- Where were the pastors?
- Clerical narcissism
- Perpetrators, priests, people in the pews
- The secret is revealed
- Epilogue: Is everything old new again?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826515469
- 0826515460
- 9780826515476
- 0826515479
- OCLC:
- 71350368
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