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in·cest
/ ˈinˌsest/
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n.
sexual relations between people classed as being too closely related to marry each other.
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the crime of having sexual intercourse with a parent, child, sibling, or grandchild.
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Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity
Magazine article from: Novel; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity ELLEN POLLAK, Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003), pp. 280, hardcover, $39.95 Incest narratives abound in the eighteenth century. So it is strange...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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INCEST TAKES THE LEAD IN NEW CROP OF BOOKS AND MOVIES.(L.A. LIFE)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 4/2/1997; 700+ words
; ...dramas and memoirs are any indication, incest, one of humanity's last taboos, is taboo no longer. Incest is the plat du jour in the '90s marketplace...have this skeleton in the closet? More incest on tap In addition to the Sayles movie...
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Incest discourse and cinematic representation
Magazine article from: Journal of Film and Video; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Dedicated to Timothy J. Lyons THE HISTORY OF INCEST LITERATURE, like most history, has been...Freud's uncovering of the extent of incest and his subsequent recanting of his findings...their and others' pain as survivors of incest.1 "Speak-outs" were organized that...
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Incest and intertextuality in Carolivia Herron's 'Thereafter Johnnie.'
Magazine article from: African American Review; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...fascinating and highly original" novel about incest in a middle-class African-American...intertextual focus underlines the extent to which incest is structured by received cultural narratives...myths to challenge male constructions of incest as a consensual, erotic act by problematizing...
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Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: CLIO; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814. By...Pollak's densely written new book is that incest is constituted as taboo only to conceal...confounds the simple anthropological claims that incest is either a transhistorical prohibition...
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Sibling Incest and Cultural Voyeurism in Günderode's Udohla and Thomas Mann's Wälsungenblut
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...disgrace to the blood originally referred to incest, i.e., to sexual relations between...in dominant anxi eties, from fear of incest to fear of interracial relationships...eighteenth century the nightmare or fantasy of incest already encapsulated within itself the...
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Lawful incest may be on its way
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/2/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the day's hot topic - legalizing adult incest - I thought of Rick Santorum. Back in...right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You...against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery...
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Incorporating incest: gamete, body and relation in assisted conception*.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...1) It focuses on the way in which the concept of incest acts as a limit to certain possibilities. It is about...to others. (3) My focus in this article is on incest: not incest as a practice, or incest as a prohibition, but incest...
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Inbred obscurity: improving incest laws in the shadow of the "sexual family".
Magazine article from: Harvard Law Review; 6/1/2006; 700+ words
; I. INTRODUCTION The prohibition of incest is often called a "universal" taboo...13) All of these explanations for the incest taboo have been attacked by commentators...inadequate to justify current prohibitions of incest. (14) Nevertheless, society's sometimes...
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Romania weighs decriminalizing consensual incest
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/21/2009; ; 700+ words
; Surprising as it may seem, incest is not always a crime in Europe. Three...not prosecute consenting adults for incest, and Romania is considering following...children, has focused new attention on incest _ which is a crime in itself in Austria...
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Incest
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
INCEST The crime of sexual relations or marriage taking...affinity that such activity is prohibited by law. Incest is a statutory crime, often classified as a felony. The purpose of incest statutes is to prevent sexual intercourse between...
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incest
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
incest sexual relations between persons to whom...group to group, hence the definition of incest also varies. Customs prescribing whom a...relatives. Even modern prohibitions of incest are based only in part on the observed fact...
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incest taboo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
incest taboo The prohibition of sexual relations between immediate relatives, usually between parents and children, and between siblings...
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Deviance
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
...is good for a society. For example, incest is thought to be dysfunctional (Davis...rearing. According to some, therefore, incest is inherently and obviously deviant because...society presumably will disapprove of incest and will refrain from practicing it because...
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Counter-Oedipus
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...displays we can expect to find themes of incest and murder. In numerous passages Freud...daughters, we frequently encounter actual incest and tyrannical jealousy, as when fathers...we find the same fundamental themes of incest and murder in the counter-Oedipus of...
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