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Incest: A New Perspective

ISBN: 978-0-7456-2416-7
Paperback
200 pages
May 2002, Polity
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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

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