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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456857203321

Autore

Sacco Lynn

Titolo

Unspeakable [[electronic resource] ] : father-daughter incest in American history / / Lynn Sacco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore. Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8018-9620-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

364.15/36

Soggetti

Incest - United States - History

Child sexual abuse - United States

Incest victims - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Incest in the nineteenth century -- Medicine and the law weigh in -- Gonorrhea and incest break out -- Protecting fathers, blaming mothers -- Incest disappears from view -- Incest in the twentieth century.