Victimized daughters : incest and the development of the female self
- New York Routledge 1994
- xiii, 209 p.; bibliog. notes.; bibliog.; index.
Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction. 2 Incest and the destruction of the mother-daughter bond. 3 Idealization of the perpetrator. 4 Sexual violence and the empathic female self. 5 Identification with the aggressor. 6 Revictimization and the divided consciousness of aggression and abuse. 7 The body as self. 8 Change and transformation: reconstructing the female self
'Basing her account on interviews with incest survivors from a range of ethnic, racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, Janet Liebman Jacobs examines the effects of incest on female personality formation.'
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Incest victims--Psychology Personality development Fathers and daughters United States Gender identity