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Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity
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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 that their significance has remained largely unexplored within literary scholarship. Part of the reason for this, as Ellen Pollak explains in Incest and the Novel, her path-breaking book and the first monograph the topic has attracted, is that we are accustomed to thinking about incest anachronistically. On the one hand, she argues, we see incest as the forbidden desire ...
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(book reviews)
Magazine article from: Adolescence
; ...but also by the survivors' own voices, incest is not a rare aberrant happening but a...substantial minority of all children. Since incest is generally hidden and denied, the victims...contradicts the reality of their experience. All incest is not the same. In the first section...
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Incest and intertextuality in Carolivia Herron's 'Thereafter Johnnie.'
Magazine article from: African American Review
; ...fascinating and highly original novel about incest in a middle-class African-American family...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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In Words and Deeds: the Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy. By ZENON...sophistication to bear on his thesis that 'incest is not simply constituted as literary...accounts of Renaissance dramatizations of incest should look elsewhere. Neither incestuous...
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The impact of incest in women's lives. (Consequences of Gender Violence).
Magazine article from: Women's Health Collection
; ...silence which defined adult society's complicity with incest was denounced, and incest became the subject of many studies on its possible...understanding of the circumstances and effects of incest on the psychological well-being of women and girls...
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Monsters in the village? Incest in nineteenth century France.(WINNER OF THE 2008 GRADUATE STUDENT COMPETITION)(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...deep in the consciousness of mankind, incest continues to suggest hotror. Beyond just...nineteenth century, the social imaginary of incest is undoubtedly telated to poverty and...this crime, French society had relegated incest to peasants and distant villages. A picture...
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"Acting out the Oedipal wish": father-daughter incest and the sexuality of adolescent girls in the United States, 1941-1965.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...historical consensus on father-daughter incest during the postwar years in the United...public at large. (1) Sociologists defined incest as a rare sexual perversion, a one-in...Claude Levi Strauss, characterized the incest taboo as effective and total and hence...
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Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England. By MAURREN QUILLIGAN...281 pp. 39 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-8122-1905-0. In Incest and Agency in Elizabeth's England Maureen Quilligan urges...undercurrent--as one might expect of endogamous forms of power. Incest and female agency are thus intimately related. ...
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Incest: the hurt ... the shame ... the healing. (includes related article with answers to questions about incest)
Magazine article from: Vibrant Life
; I am a survivor of incest. A minister, my father molested me before...For I was a victim. I was a victim of incest. I did not yet know I was also a survivor-- strong, rough, resilient. Victims of incest do survive. We survive because we are...
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Editorial: HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE LAW: Sex and the Senator.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. All of...plane as polygamists, practitioners of incest, and (drawing on another portion of the...argument, in other words, presupposed that incest could be assumed to be worse than homosexuality...
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Oh dear, we knew it would come to this--what with the whole same-sex-marriage thing--but so soon?(The Week)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...recommended to the country's parliament that incest between (among?) consenting adults...legalized. In the past, averred Prof. Munz, incest was considered a travesty only because...means that they are uninterested in incest, and we certainly hope so.
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