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Incest discourse and cinematic representation
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Dedicated to Timothy J. Lyons
THE HISTORY OF INCEST LITERATURE, like most history, has been dominated by patriarchy. Freud's uncovering of the extent of incest and his subsequent recanting of his findings is well known. The shroud of secrecy, silence, and lies woven by patriarchy was ripped in the late 1970s by feminists, many of whom were psychologists, who revealed their and others' pain as survivors of incest.1 "Speak-outs" were organized that provided incest survivors with a forum ...
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Incest discourse and cinematic representation
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; Byline: Karen De Witt The New York Times Oedipus blinded himself when he learned that he had slept with his mother. Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe's much-wed 18th-century heroine, rejects happiness when she discovers that her third husband is her brother. The lovers of D.W. Griffith's ``A Baby's
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Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814.(Book Review)
CLIO
; Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814. By Ellen Pollak. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. x + 252 pages. The striking premise of Ellen Pollak's densely written new book is that incest is constituted as taboo only to conceal or displace its foundational role in the
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Incest -- a taboo down through the ages.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; MIAMI _ Incest, society's dirtiest secret, lives in a fog of taboo and mystery. A Jacksonville, Fla., caseworker for the state department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, who asked not to be identified by name, said that in her five years of handling sexual abuse complaints, she saw incest in
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Paying Attention to Incest
The Washington Post
; Lana Lawrence helps educate mental health professionals and law enforcement officials on the effects of incest. She is testifying today before the Virginia General Assembly's legislative study committee in Richmond on victim court testimony in child sexual abuse cases. In 1984, Lawrence graduated
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Relatively Few Abortions Linked to Rape, Incest;House, Senate Defy Bush on Medicaid
The Washington Post
; Only a few thousand women a year would be likely to obtain Medicaid-funded abortions if the law is changed to permit abortions in cases of rape or incest, supporters of the proposed change said yesterday. The number could be small, several experts noted, because only a small proportion of rape and
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SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, SLIPPERY SLOPE RHETORIC, AND THE POLITICS OF DISGUST: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON CONTEMPORARY FAMILY DISCOURSE AND THE INCEST TABOO
Northwestern University Law Review
; "Incest" is symbolic of the special way in which the pattern of social relationships, as they are normatively defined, can be broken "Incest" means the wrong way to act in a relationship To act not merely wrong, but to act in a manner opposite to that which is proper. It is to "desecrate"
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Incest, Sexuality, and Modernity
Novel
; 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
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Pa. Murder Accusation Puts Incest in Spotlight
Chicago Sun-Times
; PITTSBURGH It's a shocking accusation: A Pennsylvania man allegedly impregnated his young daughter - twice - and then murdered each newborn and buried their remains. But psychologists say the family's dark secret of incest is far from rare. Paul Corvin, 61, last week admitted to police that he had
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Incorporating incest: gamete, body and relation in assisted conception*.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; By the end of the 1990s in the UK, there was a general idea, promoted partly by academic and professional commentators and disseminated largely through mass media, that 'the public' used to be anxious about technologies of assisted conception--things like artificial insemination (AI), in-vitro
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