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- catalog abstract ""In this new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She explores the contradiction that while the occurrence of incest is widespread, it is almost universally a taboo subject. Hamer's approach removes the taboo from the discussion of incest, and places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order." "Drawing on the work of American psychotherapist Judith Herman, Hamer invites readers to focus on the neurological damage caused by traumatic experience, arguing that it is the overwhelming of one person by another that constitutes abuse, and this which causes the damage, not the fact of a close relationship. She revisits the two real-life cases of Father Porter from Massachusetts and Sappho Durrell, daughter of the British writer Lawrence Durrell, in order to demonstrate the inherent contradictions in official accounts of the subject, from genetics and anthropology to law. She also draws on the work of artists and filmmakers to explain the way film and literature have helped to preserve our understanding of abuse and its place in the world." "This book will appeal to all those who wish to think more clearly on this subject, including teachers of film and literature and those studying the sociology of the family, psychology, anthropology and criminal justice."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12496941.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In this new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on the part of priests. She explores the contradiction that while the occurrence of incest is widespread, it is almost universally a taboo subject. Hamer's approach removes the taboo from the discussion of incest, and places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order." "Drawing on the work of American psychotherapist Judith Herman, Hamer invites readers to focus on the neurological damage caused by traumatic experience, arguing that it is the overwhelming of one person by another that constitutes abuse, and this which causes the damage, not the fact of a close relationship. She revisits the two real-life cases of Father Porter from Massachusetts and Sappho Durrell, daughter of the British writer Lawrence Durrell, in order to demonstrate the inherent contradictions in official accounts of the subject, from genetics and anthropology to law. She also draws on the work of artists and filmmakers to explain the way film and literature have helped to preserve our understanding of abuse and its place in the world." "This book will appeal to all those who wish to think more clearly on this subject, including teachers of film and literature and those studying the sociology of the family, psychology, anthropology and criminal justice."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "On knowing and not wanting to know. Intimacy and pleasure -- Mystification -- Danger -- Louis Malle: Murmur of the heart -- Jennifer Montgomery: Art for teachers of children -- Sappho Durrell -- Father Porter and Cardinal Law -- Sandòr Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud -- Valerie Sinason and Estela Welldon. On being reminded. Suddenly last summer (1959) -- Through a glass darkly (1961) -- Lolita (1962 and 1997) -- The bluest eye (1970) -- The God of small things (1997).".
- catalog extent "viii, 188 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0745624154".
- catalog identifier "0745624162 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers,".
- catalog subject "306.877 21".
- catalog subject "Child sexual abuse.".
- catalog subject "HV6570.6 .H35 2002".
- catalog subject "Incest in literature.".
- catalog subject "Incest in popular culture.".
- catalog subject "Incest.".
- catalog tableOfContents "On knowing and not wanting to know. Intimacy and pleasure -- Mystification -- Danger -- Louis Malle: Murmur of the heart -- Jennifer Montgomery: Art for teachers of children -- Sappho Durrell -- Father Porter and Cardinal Law -- Sandòr Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud -- Valerie Sinason and Estela Welldon. On being reminded. Suddenly last summer (1959) -- Through a glass darkly (1961) -- Lolita (1962 and 1997) -- The bluest eye (1970) -- The God of small things (1997).".
- catalog title "Incest : a new perspective / Mary Hamer.".
- catalog type "text".