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Unspeakable : father-daughter incest in American history / Lynn Sacco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sacco, Lynn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Incest--United States--History.
- Incest.
- Child sexual abuse--United States.
- Child sexual abuse.
- Incest victims--United States.
- Incest victims.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (364 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore. Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Against several different historical backdrops--public accusations of incest against "genteel" men in the nineteenth century, the epidemic of gonorrhea among young girls in the early twentieth century, and adult women's incest narratives in the mid-to late twentieth century--Sacco demonstrates that attitude shifts about patriarchal sexual abuse were influenced by a variety of individuals and groups seeking to protect their own interests.
- Contents:
- Incest in the nineteenth century
- Medicine and the law weigh in
- Gonorrhea and incest break out
- Protecting fathers, blaming mothers
- Incest disappears from view
- Incest in the twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9620-7
- OCLC:
- 550669663
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