Shares the experiences of incest victims, argues that our patriarchal society is partly responsible, and describes the effect of paternal rape on children

Father-daughter rape

Parenting & Relationships

Elizabeth Ward

Family Relationships

GROVE PRESS

Father-Daughter Rape appears at the very moment when the nation's headlines report widespread sexual child abuse. It is an impassioned outcry that shatters the conspiracy of silence of the "incest taboo." Elizabeth Ward opens this powerful book with a series of personal accounts by women of their being raped or molested in childhood by fathers, brothers, or other men in whom they had trusted. By setting these harrowing accounts in a wider political context. she places the blame, so often laid upon girls and their mothers, squarely upon the abuse of male power. Her feminist analysis carefully evaluates the existing literature and assaults traditional psycho-analysis for its failure to give credence to reports of child abuse. One of the more important breakthroughs in feminist politics has been the smashing of th incest taboo...Ward's book is enormously valuable as the first major feminist study of incest."

Father-Daughter Rape

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Father-daughter rape (Politics, women's studies)

Women's Press

<p>Reissued for the 50th anniversary of the film of Chandler's novel, The Big Sleep, this evocative and elegant book juxtaposes excerpts of Chandler's tough, cynical prose with black-and-white photographs of the city he described as "no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness". 100 photos.</p>

Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles

Arts & Photography

alain-silver

Photography & Video

Abrams Press

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