{"product_id":"incest-a-new-perspective-hardback-9780745624150","title":"Incest; A New Perspective (Hardback) 9780745624150","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eIncest\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA New Perspective\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary Hamer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745624150, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 July 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 1.9 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Hamer's book plunges into the thicket of our scandals and blindness about incest, to tell us that abuse is the price paid by a society that insists on clear norms of masculinity and femininity. It is not possible to speak of incest, in other words, says Hamer, without addressing the entire social order. And this is what she does, in this clearly written, energetic, and powerful book.\" A\u003ci\u003entonia Lant, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A personal journey of significance to us all. This account of the routine withdrawal of tenderness from close relationships will go against the grain of much formal cogitation. But it slides along the grain of an important kind of emotional knowledge. Agree with it or not, the effect is uncanny. Its echoes will reverberate a long time.\" \u003ci\u003eMarilyn Strathern\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"A brave and original book. Mary Hamer's \u003ci\u003eIncest\u003c\/i\u003e combines autobiography, literary criticism and psychoanalysis to break down embedded formulae about love, masculinity and tenderness.\" \u003ci\u003eTerri Apter, Newnham College, Cambridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this major 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 places sexual abuse in the context of the whole social order. Hamer's novel and innovative approach challenges the taboo on clear thinking around the subject of incest. She demonstrates the inherent contradictions in official accounts of the subject, from genetics and anthropology to law. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on the work of American psychotherapist Judith Herman, she 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 it is this which causes the damage, not the fact of a close relationship.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe brings together, in accessible form, key descriptions of the effects of abuse from analysts Sandor Ferenczi, Estela Welldon and Valerie Sinason\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe revisits the two real-life cases of Father Porter from Massachusetts and Sappho Durrell, daughter of the British writer Lawrence Durrell. 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 of its place in the world\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFilms and novels featured: \u003ci\u003eMurmur of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArt for Teachers of Children\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSuddenly Last Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe God of Small Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncludes 16 film stills\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: ON KNOWING AND NOT WANTING TO KNOW.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntimacy and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMystification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDanger.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouis Malle: \u003cu\u003eMurmur of the Heart.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJennifer Montgomery: \u003cu\u003eArt for Teachers of Children.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSappho Durrell.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFather James Porter and Cardinal Law.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSandor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValerie Sinason and Estela Welldon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: ON BEING REMINDED.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eSuddenly Last Summer.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThrough a Glass Darkly.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eLolita.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe Bluest Eye.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eThe God of Small Things.\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52406562750744,"sku":"9780745624150","price":45.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745624150.jpg?v=1784140119","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/incest-a-new-perspective-hardback-9780745624150","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}