Incest: A New PerspectiveISBN: 978-0-7456-2415-0
Hardcover
200 pages
August 2002, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- Controversial argument that incest is a product of social organization not just individual pathologies
- Uses the voices of artists, filmmakers and therapists to develop an argument
- Includes examination of the Father Porter case and the example of Sappho Durrell, daughter of writer Lawrence Durrell
- Features 16 film stills e.g. from Lolita (x2), Ingmar Bergman's Through A Glass Darkly and Suddenly Last Summer with Elizabeth Taylor