"In 1978 Louise Armstrong started it all by writing Kiss Daddy Goodnight, the bestselling book that spoke the terrible truth about incest. Now, more than fifteen years later, she stops to ask the questions: How did we get here? How did we get from "dread taboo" to the point where talk of incest is routine and banal, a pet of the talk shows? How did we get from serious inquiry into what causes incest - to exclusive focus on what incest causes? How did we get from total disbelief, to a brief moment of belief in the testimony of women and children - to the point where, once again, women's and children's credibility is under attack? To False Memory Syndrome and adult survivors undergoing exorcism - into a glare and cacophony such that the best interests of our children are still being forsaken and self-described healers and empowerers are getting rich." "Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics is the story of skillfully mounted backlash. But it is also the story of how it is now possible for the powers-that-be to use noise to achieve the end that was once served by repression and enforced silence - and how they defuse the political, the potentially politically explosive, by turning it into the personal. It is, alas, also the story of the power of the promise of "help" and the language of "treatment" to infantilize massive numbers of women, and to lead us away from any serious action for change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

"In 1978 Louise Armstrong started it all by writing Kiss Daddy Goodnight, the bestselling book that spoke the terrible truth about incest. Now, more than fifteen years later, she stops to ask the questions: How did we get here? How did we get from "dread taboo" to the point where talk of incest is routine and banal, a pet of the talk shows? How did we get from serious inquiry into what causes incest - to exclusive focus on what incest causes? How did we get from total disbelief, to a brief moment of belief in the testimony of women and children - to the point where, once again, women's and children's credibility is under attack? To False Memory Syndrome and adult survivors undergoing exorcism - into a glare and cacophony such that the best interests of our children are still being forsaken and self-described healers and empowerers are getting rich." "Rocking the Cradle of Sexual Politics is the story of skillfully mounted backlash. But it is also the story of how it is now possible for the powers-that-be to use noise to achieve the end that was once served by repression and enforced silence - and how they defuse the political, the potentially politically explosive, by turning it into the personal. It is, alas, also the story of the power of the promise of "help" and the language of "treatment" to infantilize massive numbers of women, and to lead us away from any serious action for change."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Containing contributions from leading experts in the field, this Handbook explores the many ways gender and violence interact across different contexts and offers a range of disciplinary perspectives. This comprehensive volume connects micro-level interpersonal violence to macro-level structural forms of violence across three discrete but interrelated sections: concepts, representations, and contexts.

Filled with fascinating new perspectives on a culture saturated with syndromes of every sort, "Hystories" skillfully surveys the condition of hysteria--its causes, cures, famous patients, and doctors--in the 20th century to show that hysterias are always with us, a kind of collective coping mechanism for changing times.

Healing Sex is the encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault - heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single - who want to delight in their own sexuality. While most books on the topic broach sexuality to reassure women that it's all right to say ''no'' to unwanted sex, Healing Sex encourages women to learn how to say ''yes'' - to their own desires and on their own terms